Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit India soon. This will be Putin’s first visit to India since the war on Ukraine began in 2022. The dates of Putin’s visit have not yet been decided. Last month,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited Russia to attend the 16th BRICS Summit.
“Specific dates of President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India will soon be announced and Russia will begin preparing for it,” Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s press secretary, said.
“I hope soon we’ll work out the precise dates of his visit… Of course, after two visits of Prime Minister Modi to Russia, now we have a visit of the President to India, so we’re looking forward to it,” he added.
Notably, this will mark Putin’s first visit to India since Russia launched a war on Ukraine in 2022.
The Russian President last visited India on December 6, 2021, when he attended the 21st India-Russia Annual Summit in New Delhi alonside Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The announcement of Putin’s visit to India comes less than a month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled to Russia in October 2024 to attend the 16th BRICS Summit.
At the BRICS Summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the country’s economic growth.
Putin’s remarks came as a senior official from the International Monetary Fund said that India remains the largest growing economy in the world while observing that the country’s macroeconomic fundamentals are good.
In his address at the BRICS Summit on Wednesday,
Prime Minister Modi said India supported dialogue and diplomacy and not war and called for resolution of the Russia-Ukraine conflict through peaceful negotiations.
He also flagged concerns over pressing challenges such as wars, economic uncertainty, climate change and terrorism and said the BRICS can play a positive role in taking the world on the right path.
The prime minister strongly pitched for “single-minded” focus and “firm support” of all in combating terrorism, asserting that there is no place for “double standards” to deal with the challenge.
He underlined the need to take “active steps” to stop the radicalisation of youths.
On the sidelines of the summit, PM Modi held bilateral talks with several state heads including Chinese President Xi — their first structured meeting in the last five years. In the meeting,
PM Modi underscored the need to not allow differences on boundary-related matters to disturb peace and tranquillity along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
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