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.

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 friendliness between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump was seen as a relationship like no other.