"Unacceptable": India protests deaths of four Indian sailors in Russian attack near Ukraine

Reuters and AP report that India summoned a Russian diplomat after four Indian citizens were killed in a Russian strike on the Guinea-Bissau-flagged cargo ship *Golden Leo* in the Black Sea on July 21. The Hindu and The Straits Times note the ship, carrying an Indian-Syrian crew, was hit while departing Odesa, Ukraine. The Kremlin stated Russia was in contact with New Delhi over the incident, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov suggesting without evidence that the vessel may have been carrying arms for Ukraine. Meduza reports the Indian Foreign Ministry summoned Russia’s chargé d’affaires in New Delhi to express serious concern over the deaths.

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