NEW DELHI: A Russian missile struck the warehouse of an Indian pharmaceutical company Kusum in Ukraine on Saturday amid the ongoing conflict, the Ukrainian embassy in India informed.
It criticised the Vladimir Putin-led Russian government calling it a “deliberate” attack while the country claims a “special friendship” with India.
“Today, a Russian missile struck the warehouse of Indian pharmaceutical company Kusum in Ukraine,” it said.
“While claiming “special friendship” with India, Moscow deliberately targets Indian businesses — destroying medicines meant for children and the elderly,” it added.
This comes as the Indian government has made its anti-war stance clear in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict with Prime Minister Narendra Modi categorically saying that the country was on the side of peace.
“I have a close relationship with Russia and Ukraine alike. I can sit with President Putin and say that this is not the time for war, and I can also tell President Zelenskyy in a friendly way that brother, regardless of how many people stand with you in the world, there will never be a resolution on the battlefield,” PM Modi had said.
Meanwhile, Russia and Ukraine’s top diplomats on Saturday exchanged fresh accusations of breaching a tentative, US-brokered agreement aimed at halting attacks on energy infrastructure—highlighting the ongoing difficulties in negotiating an end to the three-year conflict.
Although Moscow and Kyiv had initially agreed in principle last month to a limited 30-day ceasefire, their separate discussions with US officials in Saudi Arabia were followed by conflicting statements. Both sides disagreed on when the pause in strikes should begin and quickly accused each other of violating the agreement almost immediately.
