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Top Putin Ally Modi Tells Russian Leader To Stop Ukraine War In Humiliating Blow For Moscow

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin stand after making a press statement after their talks at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec.

One of Vladimir Putin's top international allies has urged the Russian dictator to end the Ukraine war.

India's prime minister Narendra Modi told the Russian president to his face that the conflict must come to a conclusion, for humanity's sake.

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin stand after making a press statement after their talks at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. One of Vladimir Putin's top international allies has urged the Russian dictator to end the Ukraine war. India's prime minister Narendra Modi told the Russian president to his face that the conflict must come to a conclusion, for humanity's sake.

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India is the second largest buyer of Russian oil after China and its support is essential to fund Putin's war machine amid sweeping Western sanctions.
Russian crude oil accounted for more than 50% of India's oil imports in June and July.
At the start of talks with Putin in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, Modi began by calling Putin "my friend" and welcoming the economic ties...

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According to the Kremlin's transcript, Modi then <a href="ht...

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