External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has stepped up India’s diplomatic outreach at the United Nations General Assembly, holding a series of high-level meetings focused on trade, technology, climate action, energy, defence, connectivity and wider geopolitical challenges. Jaishankar’s engagements with European partners including the Netherlands, Finland and Slovenia put India-EU cooperation, the proposed India-EU FTA, manufacturing, energy and defence ties in focus. Discussions also covered the Ukraine conflict, technological challenges and commitments linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s international engagements.

Kyiv has come under a major Russian drone barrage, with daylight attacks hitting parts of Ukraine’s capital and causing explosions, fires and thick black smoke over the city. Ukrainian officials said Russian drones struck critical and civilian infrastructure, including railway facilities, fuel stations, warehouses and other buildings. At least two people were reported killed and more than 20 injured in the Kyiv attack. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia used a large number of drones, including faster jet-powered drones that are harder to intercept.