As the West's support for Ukraine weakens and its efforts to isolate Russia sputters, President Vladimir Putin is making his moves. Russian diplomacy has been working overtime to draw its Moscow's friends closer, exploiting the Global South's resentment of the West and trying to normalize relationships bruised by the Ukraine war.
And he now sees the opportunity to slow traditional friend India from drawing closer to the United States' orbit, despite New Delhi's wariness of Moscow becoming a junior partner to its arch-enemy China.
