The Russian Foreign Ministry has said reports about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi allegedly refusing a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin are a “misunderstanding”, the Interfax news agency said on Tuesday.
Bloomberg News reported last week that a decision to cancel a summit between the two leaders was taken after veiled threats by Putin to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war.
No Modi-Putin summit this year after they met in September: Indian govt source
An Indian government source told Reuters that the decision not to hold a summit was taken much earlier and that the nuclear angle was not a factor.
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