A week after PM Narendra Modi visited Russia, Indians 'trapped' in the Russian Army and "forced" or "tricked" into fighting the Ukraine war, are yet to be brought back.

A week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Russia, and meeting with President Vladimir Putin, the US reaffirmed its "strategic" ties with India.Pentagon press secretary Major General Pat Ryder made the remarks at a press briefing in Washington on Tuesday.

India has summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to discuss President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's remarks about the meeting in Russia between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian ruler Vladimir Putin.

India is exploring ways to boost its exports to Russia, including by encouraging rupee-rouble trade and pushing Moscow to lift non-tariff barriers, New Delhi said on Monday, in the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Moscow.

The US has decided to lecture India again over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Russia. The US ambassador to India said that US-India ties are not deep enough for India to take them for granted.

He stated, "It is disheartening to see the leader of the world's largest democracy embrace the world's most notorious criminal in Moscow,". His comments came in the backdrop of the recent hospital attack in Ukraine in which children also died.

PM Modi’s July 8-9 visit in Russia was symbolic, substantive and significant in many ways, even though it attracted undesirable attention and unsolicited comments from certain western countries and their representatives exceeding their diplomatic brief,