Samarkand: On September 16, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin that now was not the time for war. He directly assailed the Kremlin chief in public over the nearly seven-month-long conflict in Ukraine. “I know that today’s era is not an era of war, and I have spoken to you on the phone about this,” Modi told Putin at a televised meeting in the ancient Uzbek Silk Road city of Samarkand.
