Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugged Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday in a display of the two nation’s strong relationship while most of the Western world condemns Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Modi’s visit to Russia is his first since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and he’ll be one of the first world leaders among the United States’s allies to visit Putin.

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