Prime Minister Narendra Modi is touring Europe at a time when the region is witnessing its worst geopolitical crisis since World War II with ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The Russia-Ukraine war has pitched the European Union and the US against Russia. The European Union and the US have imposed hard sanctions against Russia to deter it from escalating the crisis, but the sanctions have not proven to be a deterrent, as the war has been ongoing from over two months now, with no end to hostilities in sight.