{"id":613277,"date":"2025-12-05T06:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/613277\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T06:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:37:16","slug":"putin-india-visit-russian-president-in-delhi-to-meet-prime-minister-narendra-modi-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/613277\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin India visit: Russian president in Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putin&#8217;s first visit since full-scale invasion of Ukrainepublished at 04:57 GMT<\/p>\n<p>04:57 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is Putin\u2019s first visit to India since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then, global lines have been redrawn and Putin has mostly been isolated from the world, travelling less frequently and only to visit trusted allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He last visited India in December 2021 &#8211; two months before the war &#8211; for the 21st India-Russia Annual Summit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Putin in black suit and pink sitting for talks with Modi, who is in a white kurta with black jacket.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/101884e2-26b5-4917-ac55-117eb3532691.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"628\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Putin last visited India in 2021<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That was a much shorter visit, lasting just five hours, amid the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Delhi and Moscow used the time to sign several agreements across a range of sectors, including trade, energy, intellectual property and education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The countries also signed a programme for defence cooperation for 10 years &#8211; to run up to 2031.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Modi and Putin have met at other international summits since then and, last year, the Indian prime minister travelled to Russia to attend the countries\u2019 annual summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s first visit since full-scale invasion of Ukrainepublished at 04:57 GMT 04:57 GMT This is Putin\u2019s first visit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-613277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115665584526474906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}