India PM Modi tells Putin in Moscow 'peace is of utmost importance'

Ukraine's Zelenskyy rips visit as 'devastating blow to peace efforts'

Russian President Vladimir Putin awards Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 9. © Reuters

KIRAN SHARMA, Nikkei staff writer

July 9, 2024 23:12 JST

Updated on July 10, 2024 03:25 JST

NEW DELHI -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday and told him that no solution to a conflict can be found on the battlefield, saying "peace is of utmost importance."

Modi is in Russia for a two-day visit. Russian forces attacked a children's hospital in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Monday as part of an airstrike that killed over 40 people, the latest assault in Moscow's two-year war against Ukraine.