BishkekIndia is Russia’s second-largest oil buyer.
Modi called for peace without threatening the trade funding the war.
India buys Russian crude, Western technology and Gulf security simultaneously, hedging each against the other.
Russia and India target $100 billion in trade by 2030, Putin said.
How each outlet framed it
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- Nikkei Asia
- juxtaposes Modi's peace rhetoric against India's continued large-scale Russian crude purchases
- RT
- emphasizes Modi's consistent historical advocacy for peace and growing Russia-India economic cooperation (trade +2.6%)
Sources: Nikkei Asia, RT