Putin defies the West, but ‘we shouldn’t overestimate the importance of this BRICS summit’

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China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and some other BRICS leaders discussed the war in Ukraine with President Vladimir Putin as the Kremlin chief chaired a major summit aimed at showing Western attempts to isolate Russia have failed. For more information, FRANCE 24’s Eve Irvine interviews Ulrich Schmid, professor of Russian studies, University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

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