DEC 4, 2025: Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in Delhi for a two-day visit to India for the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit, and Indian PM Narendra Modi received him with a hug at Delhi’s Palam Airport. The two leaders then sat in the same car and left the airport.
Putin is accompanied by senior ministers and a large Russian business delegation on the two-day trip, as Moscow and New Delhi seek to expand their economic ties beyond energy and defence, according to agency reports.
During the visit, Putin will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, focusing primarily on trade, investment, economy and defence. President Droupadi Murmu will also receive him and host a state banquet.
This is the second time PM Modi and President Putin have travelled in the same car, and the Russian leader’s first visit to old friend India since the start of the war in Ukraine nearly four years back.
