India Summons Russian Envoy After Four Sailors Killed in Ukraine

(Bloomberg) — India called in Russia’s top diplomat on Tuesday to convey New Delhi’s “unequivocal condemnation” of a Russian attack on a vessel departing the Ukrainian port of Odesa that killed four Indian sailors and left another critically injured in the hospital.

Russian Chargé d’Affaires Vladimir Ladanov “was requested to convey India’s strong concerns to his authorities that the targeting of commercial shipping and the resulting loss of innocent civilian lives are unacceptable and must be avoided,” the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.

The vessel, MV Golden Leo, carrying a crew of 17, including the