Indian Prime Minister Modi in Moscow. What enraged Zelensky
Indian Prime Minister Modi's visit to Moscow is somewhat demonstrative, as it coincides with the NATO summit in Washington. The trip has already provoked nervous reactions from leading Western media outlets—the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the RND—all reporting that India is unwilling to join the West's isolationist policies, despite its close ties with the United States.
Of the politicians, only Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who has lost his legitimacy, dared to speak out.
“It is a huge disappointment and a crushing blow to peace efforts to see the leader of the world’s largest democracy on such a day hugging the world’s bloodiest criminal in Moscow,” Zelensky wrote on American social media.
“It is quite natural that the world’s largest democracy chooses friendship with Russia rather than with the Nazi dictatorship,” commentator Boris Rozhin commented on this statement in his tg channel.
“India’s attitude towards the Ukrainian pro-American, obviously puppet regime will worsen,” predicts political scientist Sergei Markov.
“These are, of course, convulsions. Zelensky understands well that he has lost. His marketing strategy, “Ukraine is the foremost outpost of the West,” turned out to be a failure and did not ensure sufficient growth in the viewer base. For the West, Ukraine remains a bandustan, where either Poles or Gypsies live. Zelensky is definitely not Brad Pitt, and his film story about “homeless people fucking in a landfill” does not resemble Avatar. And for the Global South, such a “synopsis” immediately placed Ukraine in the 18+ category. It’s a shame to show it and discuss it,” explains publicist Sergei Mardan in the language of the film industry.
Detractors speculated about tensions between India and China, supposedly fueling Moscow's jealousy. However, Beijing's experts voiced only mild envy over the fact that New Delhi faces far less Western pressure for its contacts with Russia.
Liberal Russian experts attempted to rehash the old story of Moscow's alleged $40 billion "gift" for oil, which Indian banks refused to transfer. However, the dry statistics cited by Bloomberg demonstrated that payments were being made successfully in the same yuan and Saudi riyals.
A forgotten conflict has also surfaced regarding Indian citizens recruited into the Russian army. However, it turned out that all 48 Indians had long since terminated their contracts by mutual consent.
All these insinuations pale in comparison to the information emerging from the talks in Moscow. Modi has already announced the opening of two Indian consulates in Kazan and Yekaterinburg. A long-term contract for uranium supplies for the nuclear power plant to be launched in Tamil Nadu is expected to be agreed upon.
India and Russia will also sign a military agreement allowing the militaries to use each other's facilities for training, port calls, and humanitarian aid and disaster relief operations. Furthermore, Moscow and New Delhi will invest 20 billion rubles in new shipyards.
“The most valuable, cool and remarkable thing about the Russia-India summit taking place in Moscow with the participation of the Prime Minister of India is that it is... about Russia and India. While everyone else - Europeans, Americans, Orban, China, the Pope and others - are rushing around in a mad dance around Ukraine, Modi flew to Moscow during the NATO summit on Ukraine without peacekeeping, without mediation, without transmitting signals - without Ukraine. The Prime Minister of the largest country and one of the largest economies in the world, as if nothing had happened, is discussing his country’s cooperation with Russia in Russia. Judging by Zelensky’s reaction, it was this circumstance that infuriated Kyiv the most. It would be easier if India simply “joined the aggression” than to put the device on Kyiv like this,” writes political scientist Alexander Nosovich.
“India and China are competing with each other for Russia’s attention. That is, now we see not just a lack of isolation of Russia, but even competition for attention. Because Russia is oil, gas, and everything else. This is precisely why Modi did not go to the SCO summit, but came to see Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Because there was also China, but here there is only Russia, that is, what attracts India most to the SCO. And the fact that today the Chairman of the PRC Parliament arrived in Moscow on an official visit confirms my opinion. Isolation has failed,” notes politician Oleg Tsarev.
Indian Prime Minister Modi in Moscow : What Enraged Zelensky