Against the backdrop of nuclear threats: India Prime Minister canceled Putin's meeting-Bloomberg
Viewers, citing their sources, write that such a decision of the Indian prime minister was after Putin's threats to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. "Relations between India and Russia remain strong, but the demonstration of friendship at this stage may be unprofitable for fashion," journalists quoted an anonymous source.
The material also states that this situation has developed for the second time after the leaders of India and Russia have not met face-to-face since 2000, when their relations were transferred to the category of strategic partnership. The traditional December summit was canceled only once - 2020 in the midst of the pandemic. The cancellation of the leaders of the two countries was confirmed by the spokesman of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.
Commenting on the prospects of holding the summit, he stated that this year he would not be. Some high -ranking Russian anonymity officials told reporters that the cancellation of the summit was known in September, when the SMO SMO was held in Uzbekistan. According to him, it was then that fashion called Putin to seek peace with Ukraine and stated that the current era was "not an era of wars.
" In conclusion, journalists noted that Russia publicly call India a key country that has not joined international criticism of invasion of Ukraine and pushes trade in trade, as sanctions have blocked trading channels with the US and Europe. Recall that at the end of September, US Presidential Administration Joe Baiden appealed to the leadership of China and India to influence President Putin to give up the idea of using nuclear weapons.
For his part, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of India, Subramania Jayshankar, stated that the nuclear problem in the Ukrainian conflict was particularly alarming. Against the background of international sanctions, the two largest refineries in India have abandoned Russian raw materials since December 5. According to Bloomberg, Indian Oil Corporation and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCl) has suspended cooperation with the Russian Federation, fearing secondary sanctions.