NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Ukraine next month, a local media report said, his first visit to the country since its war with Russia began and just weeks after he met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Ukraine’s embassy in New Delhi said it had no information to share immediately. There was no immediate response from India’s foreign ministry.
Western countries have imposed sanctions on Moscow following its all-out invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but “friendly” nations such as India and China have continued to trade.
India has refrained from directly blaming Russia, while urging the two nations to resolve their conflict through dialogue and diplomacy.
Modi met Putin just as a Russian missile struck a hospital in Kyiv killing at least 41 people. The Indian leader told Putin that the death of innocent children was “painful and terrifying.”
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed unhappiness over Modi’s visit, calling it a “huge disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts” to see him hug “the world’s most bloody criminal in Moscow on such a day.”
Russia denied striking the hospital.
The US State Department has raised concerns over India’s relationship with Russia especially at a time when it has been seeking to strengthen ties with India as a potential counterweight to an ascendant China.
New Delhi is seeking to deepen its relationship with the West while keeping ties intact with Russia.
The final date of Modi’s visit is not yet confirmed, The Print reported on Saturday.
Indian PM Modi likely to visit Ukraine in August, local media reports
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Indian PM Modi likely to visit Ukraine in August, local media reports
- Ukraine’s embassy in New Delhi said it had no information to share immediately
- There was no immediate response from India’s foreign ministry
Indonesia says it will restore access to Musk’s Grok chatbot
- Grok has faced a global backlash after it emerged that its image creation feature allowed users to sexualize pictures of women and children using simple text prompts
JAKARTA: Indonesia will restore access to Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok after the billionaire’s social media platform X promised to comply with the country’s laws, a government official said on Sunday.
Grok has faced a global backlash after it emerged that its image creation feature allowed users to sexualize pictures of women and children using simple text prompts.
Malaysia and the Philippines followed Indonesia in temporarily blocking access to the tool, which is integrated into X, over concerns about AI-generated sexual deepfakes.
Alexander Sabar, a senior official in Indonesia’s Communication and Digital Ministry, said access was being restored “conditionally” after X Corp gave “a written commitment containing concrete steps for service improvement and prevention of misuse.”
Sabar said in a statement the ministry would continue to supervise and evaluate Grok and that it would take “corrective actions,” including another suspension, if violations were found.
xAI, the Musk-owned startup that developed the AI tool, did not respond immediately for comment.
However, it told the Philippines last month that it would modify Grok to suit the local market, including the “total exclusion of pornographic content, particularly child sexual abuse material.”
Malaysia also restored access to Grok after receiving similar promises from X that included “additional preventive and security measures.”
The EU said in late January it had opened an investigation into Grok’s sexualized deepfake images of women and minors.
Grok said in response it was restricting image generation and editing to paying subscribers.
