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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that India is a great power that determines its national interests and chooses its partners. Speaking at a press conference at the United Nations, Lavrov described the heavy pressure on New Delhi over energy cooperation with Moscow as completely inappropriate.

Lavrov said that I think India is a great power that determines its own national interests, determines its own national interests and chooses its partners. We know that India is under immense pressure in the international arena, completely undue pressure. His comments came in response to a question on Prime Minister Modi's recent visit to Moscow and India's opposition to energy cooperation with Russia. This was PM Modi's first visit to Russia after the Ukraine conflict started. Western countries were not happy with PM Modi's visit to Russia. While criticizing it, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on Twitter that a Russian missile had struck Ukraine's largest children's hospital, targeting young cancer patients. Many people were buried under the rubble.

Zelensky said about the Modi-Putin meeting, *Seeing the leader of the world's largest democracy hugging the world's bloodiest criminal on such a day in Moscow is a huge disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts.