Belarus is among the few countries said to be actively supporting the Russian military amid the Ukraine conflict. The meeting between Jaishankar and Belarus's Foreign Minister comes a day after the external affairs minister's Moscow visit.
Jaishankar reached Moscow on Monday as a part of his two-day visit to Russia, in continuation of the regular high-level dialogue between the two sides. During his meeting with Lavrov today, he reviewed the entire gamut of the India-Russia relationship.
Ahead of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's Moscow visit later today, Indian envoys to Ukraine and Russia called the visit 'significant' highlighting the fact that it will also catch global attention as India prepares to take over the chair of G20.
President Vladimir Putin signed a law that will enlist Russian citizens with criminal records of murder, robbery, drug trafficking and other serious criminal charges.
The number of shells that North Korea is allegedly sending to Russia is "not insignificant," but the White House does not believe the supplies can tangibly change the direction of the conflict in Ukraine, Kirby said.
The challenges, Vladimir Voronkov said, include identifying, monitoring, investigating, and prosecuting terrorist activities involving the use of new technologies.
Russian President in his annual address to the Valdai Discussion Club, a Moscow-based think tank on Thursday lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's independent foreign policy, saying that a lot has been done under his leadership in India as he called him a patriot of the country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is convinced that sooner or later "new centers of power in the multipolar world and the West will have to start talking as equals about our common future."
The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that Russia has used nearly 400 Iranian drones against the civilian population of Ukraine as the war between the two countries escalated after the Crimea bridge explosion and led to civilian deaths.