NEW DELHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi on Thursday to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, marking his first visit to India since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago.
Putin’s two-day visit comes as India and Russia mark 25 years of strategic partnership. Putin and Modi on Friday will co-chair the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit — the strategic partnership’s key platform.
The trip takes place amid intensifying US pressure on Russia to end the war in Ukraine, and tense relations between Washington and New Delhi as the US imposes tariffs on India and threatens sanctions over its historic ties with Moscow and its imports of Russian oil.
“India’s ties with the US have gone through a turbulent phase in recent years under the Trump administration, and Russia had been one of the factors,” Prof. Harsh V. Pant, vice president of the Observer Research Foundation, told Arab News.
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