India's Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin on the eve of the BRICS summit that he wanted peace in Ukraine and that New Delhi was ready to help achieve a truce to end Europe's deadliest conflict since World War Two.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in the Russian city of Kazan for the BRICS summit organised by the Kremlin, where he met and hugged Russian leader Vladimir Putin and said that India supports a peaceful resolution of the war against Ukraine and is ready to help in this.

PM Narendra Modi holds talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kazan on the margins of the BRICS summit. My second visit to Russia in three months reflects close coordination and deep friendship between India and Russia: Modi in talks with Putin.