Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday in the first visit by an Indian prime minister to Ukraine since the country became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. The meeting is being closely watched after Zelensky harshly criticized Modi for his high-profile trip to Moscow six weeks ago in which he held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A video of Modi and Putin embracing raised eyebrows in Europe and Washington, especially as it came shortly after a deadly Russian strike on a paediatric hospital in Kiev. In Kiev in Friday, Modi s…