MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the leaders of China, India and three ex-Soviet states on Friday in a flurry of calls to brief them on his contacts with the United States about the war in Ukraine.

The collapse of the Indian prime minister’s high-stakes personal efforts to transform India’s ties with the world’s two superpowers has exposed the limits of India’s leverage.

BENGALURU/BRASILIA (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke by phone on Thursday, their offices said, discussing a broad range of topics that included tariffs imposed by the United States on goods from both countries.