External affairs ministry has cautioned against double standards following NATO chief Rutte's warning of potential secondary sanctions for countries, including India, maintaining trade ties with Russia.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned India, China, and Brazil of potential secondary sanctions if they continue trade with Russia. Rutte urged these nations to pressure Putin for peace talks.

China and Russia reaffirmed their strategic partnership during a high-level diplomatic meeting in Beijing on Sunday, discussing global challenges and the ongoing war in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Russia launched 400 Shahed and decoy drones, as well as one ballistic missile, during the night, the Ukrainian air force said. The strikes targeted northeastern Kharkiv, which is Ukraine’s second-largest city, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine, Vinnytsia in the west and Odesa in the south.

The people of America need this technology, and you need to have it in your arsenal,” Zelensky told The Post of Ukraine’s latest drones.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat that Beijing can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine as this could allow the United States to turn its full attention to China,

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says there are “areas of potential cooperation” between Washington and Beijing.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has warned that secondary sanctions could severely impact China, Brazil and India if Russia fails to engage seriously in peace talks to end the war against Ukraine. Source: The Guardian,

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi and President Xi JInping during his visit to Beijing.

Rubio and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks in Kuala Lumpur on the sidelines of the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum, which brings together 10 ASEAN members and their most important diplomatic partners including Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, European nations and the U.S.