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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that now was not the time for war, directly assailing the Kremlin chief in public over the nearly seven-month-long conflict in Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin’s chief envoy on Ukraine told the Russian leader as the war began that he had struck a provisional deal with Kyiv that would satisfy Russia’s demand that Ukraine stay out of NATO.

Russian president says he wants to revise agreement to allow export of Ukrainian grain from Black Sea.

Ukraine’s nuclear chief has suggested that United Nations peacekeepers could secure the Zaporizhzhia power station. The plant has been occupied by Russia since the early days of the war and come under repeated attack, with both sides blaming each other.

Country is seeking an international tribunal but fears its allies are still focused on future relations with Russia.

UN nuclear experts have made their first inspection of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine and are to maintain a presence there. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said the “plant and physical integrity of the plant” had been “violated several times”.

A top ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Moscow would not stop its military campaign in Ukraine even if Kyiv formally renounced its aspirations to join NATO.