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Russia and India are set to enhance strategic ties with Putin's upcoming visit. Discussions will focus on bilateral trade expansion and the new economic roadmap for 2030.

Putin Visit to Elevate Russia-India Relations

Putin's upcoming visit to India aims to elevate Russia-India strategic ties. Discussions include trade boost, economic plans, and partnership renewal.

Russia and India are set to enhance strategic ties with Putin's upcoming visit

Russia and India are enhancing their strategic alliance as Putin plans an official visit to India. Major topics include a new economic roadmap and bilateral trade expansion.

Russia and India are poised to elevate their bilateral relationship to unprecedented levels, as Russian President Vladimir Putin prepares for an official visit to India.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced the impending visit during a televised address, highlighting the meticulous preparations underway for this significant diplomatic engagement.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi prioritized Russia for his first international visit after securing his third consecutive term. Now, it is our turn to reciprocate," Lavrov remarked, underscoring the deepening ties between the two nations.
While the precise date of President Putin's visit remains unspecified, Lavrov confirmed that arrangements are actively being made.
During Prime Minister Modi's visit to Russia last year, an invitation was extended to President Putin for an official state visit to India, which the Russian leader accepted.
Lavrov reiterated this development during a conference titled "Russia and India: Toward a New Bilateral Agenda," organized by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
This forthcoming visit marks President Putin's first trip to India since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in February 2022. Central to the visit will be discussions on President Putin's "new economic roadmap" for 2030.
A key objective for both nations is to double their bilateral trade to exceed $100 billion annually, up from the current level of approximately $60 billion.
India and Russia are also focusing on expanding trade routes, including the vital Chennai-Vladivostok maritime trade corridor, which will facilitate increased supply exchanges.&nbsp;
Earlier this week, Lavrov confirmed Russia's aspiration to redefine its partnership with India, envisioning a "special and privileged strategic partnership."
In a message to Indian President Droupadi Murmu, President Putin emphasized the foundational strength of Russia-India relations and expressed confidence in enhancing cooperative efforts across various sectors.
He stated, "These efforts align with our aim to establish a fair, multi-polar international order, benefiting the fundamental interests of our friendly peoples."&nbsp;
This engagement signals a renewed commitment to deepening bilateral cooperation amid a dynamically evolving global landscape.

A Kremlin advisor criticized a US-Ukraine ceasefire proposal, calling it temporary and inadequate. The proposal aims to halt a three-year conflict.

Kremlin Rebukes US-Ukraine Ceasefire Proposal

A Kremlin advisor condemned the US-Ukraine ceasefire proposal, arguing it offers only a temporary solution without addressing Russia’s legitimate interests.

Ceasefire helps Ukraine, Putin aide criticises

A top Kremlin aide dismissed a US-proposed US-Ukraine ceasefire as temporary and superficial, stressing unmet Russian interests.

In a statement released Friday, a key aide to the Kremlin criticized the proposed ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, suggesting it would merely serve as a temporary reprieve for Ukrainian forces.
Yuri Ushakov, speaking to state media following a phone conversation with US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, dismissed the initiative as inadequate.
According to Ushakov, the ceasefire would only function as a "temporary breather for the Ukrainian military."
He indicated that Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to provide a more detailed response to the proposal on Thursday.
Ushakov emphasized Russia's pursuit of a "long-term peaceful solution" that accommodates its "legitimate interests."
He noted that any measures perceived as superficial peace efforts were unnecessary under the current circumstances.
The remarks came in response to US negotiators' visit to Russia on Thursday, where they presented a plan advocating for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine.
The proposal is part of Washington's efforts to secure an "unconditional" halt to the three-year conflict, which continues to strain international relations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready for talks with US President Donald Trump regarding the Ukraine conflict but is waiting for signals from Washington.

Putin ready to talk to Trump, waiting for 'signals', Kremlin says

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready for talks with US President Donald Trump regarding the Ukraine conflict but is waiting for signals from Washington.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to talk to US counterpart Donald Trump but is waiting for signals from Washington first, the Kremlin said on Friday, fuelling expectations the two would be in contact.
The Ukraine conflict has plunged relations between the two nuclear powers to their lowest levels since the Cold War, with Trump repeatedly promising to end the fighting with a "deal".
He told reporters on Thursday he would meet Putin "immediately", and that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wanted to negotiate.
"Putin is ready. We are waiting for signals," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said of Trump's overtures.
Peskov said that he could not comment further on a possible meeting between the leaders, saying it was "hard to read coffee grounds" to predict the future.
Trump has threatened Russia with tougher economic sanctions if it does not agree to end its nearly three-year offensive.
"If they don't settle this war soon, like almost immediately, I'm going to put massive tariffs on Russia, and massive taxes, and also big sanctions," the Republican said during a Fox News interview on Thursday.
The Kremlin rejected Trump's claim that the conflict in Ukraine could be ended by lowering the price of oil used to fund Moscow's budget, saying: "This conflict does not depend on oil prices."
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, Trump had said that he would ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to lower oil prices, saying: "If the price came down, the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately."
Peskov said the conflict was instead based on "threats to Russia's national security", "threats to Russians" living in Ukraine and "the lack of desire and complete refusal of Americans and Europeans to listen to Russia's concerns".
 - Three dead near Kyiv -
Neither side has shown signs of de-escalating hostilities since Trump's inauguration on Monday.
Russian aerial attacks near Kyiv killed three people and wounded several others, Ukrainian officials said Friday, while Ukraine fired 120 drones at at least 12 Russian regions, including the capital Moscow.
The Kremlin has launched drone or missile attacks at Kyiv almost every day since sending troops into Ukraine in February 2022, ostensibly targeting military and energy facilities.
"Three people were killed in an enemy attack in the Kyiv region," the emergency services said in a statement on social media.
It said fragments of a drone had struck a 10-storey residential building after the head of the region said a private home had also been hit.
Black smoke billowed from a residential building damaged in the strike as rescue workers hauled out the bodies of the victims, official images from the scene showed.
In Russia, the Ukrainian military said it launched an overnight drone attack striking an oil refinery, power station facilities and an electronics plant.
State media reported that a microelectronics factory had halted work after six Ukrainian drones damaged production and storage facilities in the Bryansk region.
Moscow and Kyiv are both vying to gain the upper hand ahead of possible negotiations in the early days of Trump's administration.
Prior to his inauguration, Trump vowed to end the Ukraine conflict immediately upon taking office, raising concerns in Ukraine it would be forced to make major territorial concessions to Russia.
Moscow has been advancing on the battlefield for months, closing in on the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk.
On Friday, Russia said its forces captured the village of Tymofiivka about 20 kilometres (12 miles) east of the key industrial hub.

The Kremlin confirms that President Vladimir Putin is open to talks with Donald Trump, who has expressed his intention to meet Putin in an effort to resolve the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Kremlin says Putin ready for talks with Trump

The Kremlin confirms that President Vladimir Putin is open to talks with Donald Trump, who has expressed his intention to meet Putin in an effort to resolve the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.

The Kremlin said Friday that President Vladimir Putin was open to talks with Donald Trump, after the incoming US president said a meeting between the pair was being set up.
"The president has repeatedly stated his openness to contact with international leaders, including the US president, including Donald Trump," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Trump, who will be inaugurated on January 20, has repeatedly said he can bring a swift end to the nearly three-year conflict between Russia and Ukraine, without presenting a concrete plan.
On Thursday he said a meeting with Putin was being arranged.
"He wants to meet, and we're setting it up," Trump said at a meeting with Republican governors at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
"President Putin wants to meet, he's said that even publicly, and we have to get that war over with, that's a bloody mess," he said.
The Kremlin welcomed Trump's "readiness to solve problems through dialogue," Peskov said Friday, adding Moscow had no prerequisites for staging the meeting.
"No conditions are required. What is required is mutual desire and political will to solve problems through dialogue," he told reporters in a daily briefing.
Trump's hopes for a swift end to the conflict have stoked concern in Kyiv that Ukraine could be forced to accept a peace deal on terms favourable to Moscow.
Washington has delivered tens of billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale military offensive in February 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that without such support his country would have lost the conflict.
He is pushing Trump to back his "peace-through-strength" proposal, seeking NATO protections and concrete Western security guarantees as part of any settlement to end the fighting.

Ukraine's forces launched a counterattack in Russia's Kursk region, marking a critical escalation in the nearly three-year conflict. 

Russia says Ukraine launches 'counterattack' in Kursk region

Ukraine's forces launched a counterattack in Russia's Kursk region, marking a critical escalation in the nearly three-year conflict.&nbsp;

Russia said Sunday that Ukraine had launched a "counterattack" in the western border region of Kursk, where Kyiv's forces began a shock ground offensive last August.
It was not immediately clear how much Ukraine had advanced in the region, but pro-Kremlin military bloggers reported earlier that a powerful new offensive was under way.
The assault comes at a critical juncture in the nearly three-year conflict, with both sides seeking to strengthen their negotiating hand ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House on January 20.
"At about 9:00 am Moscow time (0600 GMT), in order to halt the advance of Russian troops in the Kursk direction, the enemy launched a counterattack," the Russian defence ministry said.
The Ukrainian army did not comment on the operation, simply saying in its daily report that fighting was under way in the Kursk region without elaborating.
Ukraine used two tanks, a dozen armoured vehicles and a demolition unit in the assault, which was directed towards the village of Berdin -- about 15 kilometres (nine miles) northeast of Sudzha, Moscow said.
"The operation to destroy the Ukrainian army formations continues," it added.
Pro-Kremlin military bloggers acknowledged the Russian army had come under pressure but said Moscow was fighting back.
"The main events of the next attempted offensive by the Ukrainian army are clearly still ahead of us," influential pro-Russian Telegram channel Rybar said.
Images purportedly showing a column of Ukrainian armoured vehicles driving through the snow were shared by pro-Russia military blogger Dva Mayora on Telegram.
&nbsp;
- Attack 'from several directions' -
Ukrainian officials gave little detail on the new offensive, with a prominent lawmaker urging silence.
"I can't understand why it is necessary to officially report on the Kursk region. Maybe better to do it afterwards when the operation is over?" Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko said.
Other officials expressed their glee at the operation, which comes almost three years since Moscow launched its full-scale military assault on Ukraine.
"Russia is getting what it deserves," Ukrainian presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak said.
The head of Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation, Andriy Kovalenko, said on Telegram that defence forces were "working" in the area, without elaborating.
"In the Kursk region, the Russians are very worried because they were attacked from several directions, and it was a surprise for them," he said.
Kyiv seized dozens of villages in the Kursk region shortly after its incursion started on August 6, 2024, but its advances stalled after Moscow rushed reinforcements to the area, including thousands of troops from its ally North Korea.
A Ukrainian army source told AFP last November that Kyiv still controlled 800 square kilometres (around 300 square miles) of the Russian border region, down from previous claims it controlled almost 1,400 square kilometres.
&nbsp;
- Zelensky on Trump -
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last year the Kursk operation has boosted Kyiv's "exchange fund" -- its negotiating position on swapping prisoners of war -- and diverted tens of thousands of Russian troops away from the eastern front.
He said Saturday evening that "up to a battalion of North Korean infantry soldiers and Russian airborne troops" had been lost in battles in the Kursk region on that day and the day before.
And in an interview with US podcaster Lex Fridman released Sunday, he underlined the key role Trump would play.
"Trump and I will come to an agreement and... offer strong security guarantees, together with Europe, and then we can talk to the Russians," Zelensky said, according to the published translation of the interview held in Kyiv over the New Year.
"We and Trump come first, and Europe will support Ukraine's position," he added. Trump, he said, "has enough power to pressure him, to pressure Putin".
&nbsp;
- Airports briefly shut -
But Kyiv has so far been unable to halt Moscow's advances in Ukraine, which were seven times higher in 2024 than the year prior, according to an AFP analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War.
Both Russia and Ukraine have exchanged regular attacks since the year began.
Russia said Sunday it had downed dozens of Ukrainian drones overnight in a barrage that damaged homes and triggered air alerts, while Kyiv said Moscow fired 103 drones into its territory.
Four Russian airports briefly suspended traffic early Sunday for "safety" reasons, a spokesperson for Russia's civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia said.
Elsewhere on the front line, Ukrainian authorities in the eastern Donetsk region reported Sunday that five people had been wounded in Russian shelling.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he was ready for talks "anytime" with US President-elect Donald Trump, who has touted his ability to strike a Ukraine peace deal.

Putin ready to meet Trump 'anytime' to talk Ukraine deal

Asked about Trump's overtures regarding a possible peace deal, Putin said he would welcome a meeting with the incoming Republican.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he was ready for talks "anytime" with US President-elect Donald Trump, who has touted his ability to strike a Ukraine peace deal within hours of coming to office.
Trump, who will return to the White House in January, has stoked fears in Kyiv that he could force Ukraine to accept peace on terms favourable to Moscow.
Holding his annual end-of-year press conference, the Kremlin leader said his troops held the upper hand across the battlefield, but was forced to admit he does not know when Russia will take back the western Kursk region where Ukrainian troops launched an incursion in August.
The traditional annual question and answer sessions, often lasting hours, are largely a televised show while also being a rare setting in which he is put on the spot and answers some uncomfortable questions.
Asked about Trump's overtures regarding a possible peace deal, Putin said he would welcome a meeting with the incoming Republican.
"I don't know when I'm going to see him. He isn't saying anything about it. I haven't talked to him in more than four years. I am ready for it, of course. Any time," Putin said.
"If we ever have a meeting with President-elect Trump, I am sure we'll have a lot to talk about," he said, adding that Russia was ready for "negotiations and compromises".
The Kremlin recently welcomed Trump's sharp criticism of President Joe Biden's decision to allow Kyiv to use US-supplied missiles to strike Russian territory -- a major escalation in the nearly three-year conflict.
&nbsp;
- Kursk offensive -
Russia's troops have been advancing in eastern Ukraine for months, with Putin repeatedly touting their prowess on the battlefield.
"We are moving towards resolving the primary aims that we set at the start of the special military operation," Putin said, using Russia's term for the conflict.
"Our guys are fighting heroically. The capabilities of the armed forces are growing."
Moscow's army in November advanced at its fastest pace in east Ukraine since the first month of its 2022 attack.
But asked by a woman from the Kursk region when residents will be able to return to their homes there, after thousands were evacuated from frontline areas amid the Ukrainian assault, Putin said he could not name a date.
"We will absolutely kick them out. Absolutely. It can't be any other way. But the question of a specific date, I'm sorry, I cannot say right now," he admitted.
Putin, 72, was also pressed on economic headwinds facing Russia -- the fallout from a huge ramp up in military spending and deep labour shortages caused by the conflict.
He insisted that the situation is "stable, despite external threats", citing low unemployment and industrial growth.
Asked about soaring inflation, Putin said that "inflation is a worrying signal," and that price rises for foods such as butter and meat are "unpleasant".
He acknowledged that Western sanctions were also a factor -- "while they do not have key significance" -- and criticised the central bank saying it should have taken measures beyond raising rates to lower inflation.
&nbsp;
- Oreshnik 'duel' -
Putin appeared to repeat his threat to strike Kyiv with Russia's new hypersonic ballistic missile, dubbed Oreshnik.
Asked by a military journalist if the weapon had any flaws, Putin suggested a "hi-tech duel" between the West and Russia to test his claims that it is impervious to air defences.
"Let them set some target to be hit, let's say in Kyiv. They will concentrate there all their air defences. And we will launch an Oreshnik strike there and see what happens," Putin proposed.
Putin also called the killing of a senior Russian army general in a brazen assassination in Moscow two days earlier "terrorism", in his first comments on the attack.
Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian military's chemical weapons unit, was killed by a bomb planted in a scooter outside a residential block in Moscow, the boldest assassination claimed by Kyiv since the start of the conflict.
&nbsp;
- Syria -
In his first public comments since the fall of ex-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Putin rejected claims his toppling was a "defeat" for Russia.
"You want to present what is happening in Syria as a defeat for Russia," Putin said in response to a question from a journalist. "I assure you it is not... we have achieved our goals."
Putin said he has not yet met Assad, who fled to Moscow as rebels closed in on Damascus, but plans to soon.

Russian forces launched a major assault on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, exacerbating power outages. International leaders urged for defense support as geopolitical tensions rose.

Russia Targets Ukraine's Energy Infrastructure

Local authorities reported multiple explosions in the southern city of Odesa and Kyiv regional authorities said air defence systems were operating.

Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine's energy facilities on Friday morning, Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said.
"The enemy continues its terror. Once again, the energy sector across Ukraine is under massive attack," Galushchenko wrote in a post on Facebook.
Ukraine's energy system has already suffered 11 Russian attack waves this year, which have caused widespread damage and lengthy power cuts all over the country.
Friday's attack prompted additional restrictions on power usage for consumers, according to the national grid operator Ukrenergo.
All of Ukraine was under air raid alarms.
Local authorities reported multiple explosions in the southern city of Odesa and Kyiv regional authorities said air defence systems were operating.
Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called on partners to deliver more air defence systems urgently.
"Russia aims to deprive us of energy. Instead, we must deprive it of the means of terror. I reiterate my call for the urgent delivery of 20 NASAMS, HAWK, or IRIS-T air defense systems," Sybiha wrote in a post on X.

India-Russia friendship is “higher than the highest mountain and deeper than the deepest ocean”, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday.

Rajnath Singh meets Putin in Moscow

India-Russia friendship is &ldquo;higher than the highest mountain and deeper than the deepest ocean&rdquo;, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday.

India-Russia friendship is &ldquo;higher than the highest mountain and deeper than the deepest ocean&rdquo;, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday.
Both leaders expressed that the partnership between the countries holds immense potential and combined efforts will pave the way for remarkable outcomes, an Indian readout of the meeting said.
Singh called on Putin after co-chairing the 21st session of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Military and Military Cooperation along with Russian Defence Minister Andrey Belousov.
&ldquo;During the meeting, Rajnath Singh said &lsquo;friendship between our countries is higher than the highest mountain and deeper than the deepest ocean&rsquo;,&rdquo; the readout by the defence ministry said.
Singh conveyed to Putin that India has always stood by its Russian friends and will continue to do so in future, it said.
The defence minister also conveyed warm greetings of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to President Putin.
Glad to call on the Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, the defence minister said on &lsquo;X&rsquo;.
Singh embarked on the three-day trip to Russia on Sunday.
The defence minister&rsquo;s visit to Russia came five months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled to Moscow and held summit talks with Putin.
During the summit, both sides had vowed to further expand India-Russia defence and military ties.
Modi travelled to Russia in October as well to attend the annual BRICS summit.

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Chief Sergei Naryshkin stated on Tuesday that Russia is nearing its objectives in Ukraine, asserting the Kremlin now holds strategic control in the war. 

Russia's Strategic Gain in Ukraine War

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Chief Sergei Naryshkin stated on Tuesday that Russia is nearing its objectives in Ukraine, asserting the Kremlin now holds strategic control in the war.

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Chief Sergei Naryshkin stated on Tuesday that Russia is nearing its objectives in Ukraine, asserting the Kremlin now holds strategic control in the war. He described Ukraine&rsquo;s armed forces as "on the verge of collapse" while dismissing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy&rsquo;s legitimacy and ability to negotiate.
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused tens of thousands of deaths, displaced millions, and escalated tensions between Moscow and the West to levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Naryshkin's remarks reflect the Kremlin's view that Western support for Ukraine signifies a U.S.-led proxy war aimed at destabilizing Russia.
Meanwhile, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has called for an immediate ceasefire and negotiations, while Zelenskiy proposed the possibility of foreign peacekeeping troops in Ukraine until the country can join NATO. As Russian forces advance in eastern Ukraine, particularly in the towns of Kurakhove and Toretsk, reports indicate that President Vladimir Putin is open to talks with Trump but remains firm on retaining control over occupied Ukrainian territories.
The war, which began in 2014 with Russia&rsquo;s annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, has been labeled by the West as an imperial land grab. Western nations warn that a Russian victory could embolden authoritarian regimes worldwide.
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Veteran Watergate reporter Bob Woodward revealed in his new book that former US president Donald Trump secretly sent Covid test kits to Russian president Vladimir Putin despite a shortage in the US during the pandemic. Putin accepted the supplies but

Donald Trump Secretly Sent Covid Test Kits To Putin Despite US Shortage: Watergate Journalist

Veteran Watergate reporter Bob Woodward revealed in his new book that former US president Donald Trump secretly sent Covid test kits to Russian president Vladimir Putin despite a shortage in the US during the pandemic. Putin accepted the supplies but sought to avoid political fallout, urging Trump not reveal the dispatch of medical equipment. According to Woodward, Putin told Trump ‘I don't want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me.’ Woodward wrote Trump also spoke multiple times with Putin after leaving the office.

Veteran Watergate reporter Bob Woodward revealed in his new book that former US president Donald Trump secretly sent Covid test kits to Russian president Vladimir Putin despite a shortage in the US during the pandemic.&nbsp;

Veteran Watergate reporter Bob Woodward revealed in his new book that former US president Donald Trump secretly sent Covid test kits to Russian president Vladimir Putin despite a shortage in the US during the pandemic.
Putin accepted the supplies but sought to avoid political fallout, urging Trump not reveal the dispatch of medical equipment.
According to Woodward, Putin told Trump &lsquo;I don't want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me.&rsquo; Woodward wrote Trump also spoke multiple times with Putin after leaving the office.
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Russia's Putin quips on Olympics gender row, adds fuel to fire

Russia's Putin quips on Olympics gender row, adds fuel to fire

Calling him "a very energetic person", Putin said Modi able to achieve results for India.

Putin hosts private dinner for Modi, praises his work

Calling him "a very energetic person", Putin said Modi able to achieve results for India.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday night welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his official residence at Novo-Ogaryovo for a "private engagement" during which he praised the visiting Indian leader for the work he has done for the country's progress.
&ldquo;I would like to congratulate you on your reelection as prime minister. I think this is not an accident, but the result of your work over many years,&rdquo; Putin told Modi as they held an informal meeting in a residence outside Moscow.
&ldquo;You have your own ideas. You are a very energetic person, able to achieve results in the interests of India and the Indian people,&rdquo; Putin said. &ldquo;The result is obvious.&rdquo; &ldquo;India firmly ranks as the world&rsquo;s third-largest economy,&rdquo; Putin was quoted as saying by the state-run Tass news agency.
Putin said Prime Minister Modi has devoted his entire life to serving his people and they can feel it.
As the two heads of state held an informal meeting over a cup of tea at the official residence outside Moscow, Modi recollected the recent elections in his country, saying that &ldquo;the people of India gave him a chance to serve the Motherland.&rdquo; &ldquo;You have devoted your entire life to serving the Indian people, and they can feel it,&rdquo; Putin replied.
&ldquo;You are right, I have only one goal: It is the people and my country,&rdquo; the prime minister said with a smile, the Tass report said.
Later, President Putin and Prime Minister Modi took a stroll around Putin&rsquo;s residence in Novo-Ogaryovo.
"The Russian leader showed his Indian guest around the residence and gave him a drive in an electric car. Most of the time they spoke via interpreters. However, when they left the car and were walking to the garden they had a brief tete-a-tete conversation, probably in English," according to a separate Tass report.
In a post on X, Prime Minister Modi expressed his gratitude to President Putin for hosting him at Novo-Ogaryovo.
"Looking forward to our talks tomorrow as well, which will surely go a long way in further cementing the bonds of friendship between India and Russia," he said.
Earlier, the Ministry of External Affairs described the private event as a "meeting of two close friends and trusted partners." "PM @narendramodi welcomed by President Vladimir Putin of Russia at his official residence at Novo-Ogaryovo for a private engagement," it said, sharing some photographs of the meeting.
It is an occasion for the two leaders to cherish &amp; celebrate India-Russia friendship, it said.
In his first trip since the start of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, Modi on Monday travelled to Russia to hold summit talks with Putin on Tuesday -- a visit that is being seen as having a wider geopolitical context and signalling.
Shortly after landing in Moscow, Modi said he is looking forward to deepening bilateral partnership in futuristic areas and that stronger ties between India and Russia will "greatly benefit our people".
India seeks to play a "supportive role" for a peaceful and stable region, the prime minister said in his departure statement.
Modi was received at the Vnukovo-II airport by Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov.
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The condition for ceasefire by Putin is likely to gain serious opposition from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as he has vowed not to give up any territory to Russia.

'Putin ready to halt war in Ukraine if...': Russia's ceasefire condition out by Kremlin sources 

The condition for ceasefire by Putin is likely to gain serious opposition from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he has vowed not to give up any territory to Russia.

President Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine if Russia is allowed to keep the four regions, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, which it took control of in 2022, Reuters reported quoting multiple Kremlin sources.&nbsp; &nbsp;
According to a source quoted in the report, Putin can fight for as long as it takes, but he is also ready for a ceasefire to freeze the war. &nbsp;
Putin believes that Russians can be sold on the idea that the motherland has taken back enough territory, the source said.&nbsp;
But this condition of ceasefire by Putin is likely to gain serious opposition from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he has vowed not to give up any territory to Russia and even retake Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.&nbsp;
It was also reported that Putin invaded Ukraine with the goal of reuniting at least part of the former Soviet Union, which was dissolved in 1991. &nbsp;

Despite a string of military setbacks in the first year of the war, Putin had stood by Shoigu until now. 

Putin removes close ally Shoigu from Russia's defence minister post 

Explaining the timing of the decision, the Kremlin on Sunday said it needed the defence ministry to stay "innovative". 

Explaining the timing of the decision, the Kremlin on Sunday said it needed the defence ministry to stay "innovative".&nbsp;

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday moved to replace defence minister Sergei Shoigu in a major shake-up to Russia's military leadership more than two years into its Ukraine offensive.
Putin proposed economist Andrey Belousov as Shoigu's replacement, according to a list of the ministerial nominations published by the Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament.
The move comes at a key time in the conflict with Russian troops advancing in eastern Ukraine and having just launched a major new ground operation against the northeastern Kharkiv region.
Despite a string of military setbacks in the first year of the campaign -- including the failure to capture the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and retreats from the Kharkiv and southern Kherson regions -- Putin had stood by Shoigu until now.
That included when Wagner paramilitary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a bloody insurrection last year calling for Shoigu's removal.
Explaining the timing of the decision, the Kremlin on Sunday said it needed the defence ministry to stay "innovative".
"The defence ministry must be absolutely open to innovation, to the introduction of all advanced ideas, to the creation of conditions for economic competitiveness," state media quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying in a briefing on the appointments.
"The battlefield is won by whoever is more open to innovation," Peskov said.
"That is likely why the president has settled on the candidacy of Andrey Belousov," he added.
Belousov, who has no military background, has been one of Putin's most influential economic advisers over the last decade.
UK defence minister Grant Shapps said the Ukraine conflict had left more than 355,000 Russian soldier casualties under Shoigu's watch as well as "mass civilian suffering".
"Russia needs a Defence Minister who would undo that disastrous legacy" and end the conflict, "but all they'll get is another of Putin's puppets," he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
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- Siberian retreats - &nbsp;
Shoigu, 68, was appointed Russian defence minister in 2012 and has had a decades-long political career of unmatched longevity in post-Soviet Russia.
His presence at the centre of power in Moscow predates that of Putin himself.
Prior to Russia launching its full-scale military campaign on Ukraine in February 2022, he was seen as one of Putin's most trusted lieutenants.
The pair were regularly photographed on macho nature retreats in the Siberian wilderness, hunting and fishing together.
In one famous snap from 2017 shared by the Kremlin, they are sitting bare-chested under the sun on a beach by a lake.
On Sunday, Putin simultaneously issued decrees naming Shoigu as the new secretary of the Security Council, replacing his longstanding ally Nikolai Patrushev.
The Kremlin also said Valery Gerasimov, the Chief of the General Staff, would stay in post overseeing daily military operations in Ukraine.
Along with Shoigu, Gerasimov had been targeted by a hardcore group of influential pro-offensive military bloggers for Moscow's perceived military failures.
Prigozhin, who marched on Moscow calling for the pair's removal, died in an unexplained plane crash weeks after his aborted mutiny.
Key moment&nbsp;
Putin is constitutionally required to name a new set of government ministers -- or reappoint existing ones -- following his victory in a March election devoid of opposition.
Lawmakers in Russia's rubber-stamp parliament need to approve the president's nominations, which they are set to do over the coming days.
The future of Patrushev, an arch-hawk who is sometimes seen as a possible successor to Putin, was unclear.
There was no immediate high-level reaction to the shake-up in Ukraine.
The changes come at a crucial time in the conflict, which had been showing signs of a stalemate for months.
Putin casts the fight against Ukraine as a near-existential battle for his country, calling it just one front of a "hybrid war" between Russia and the West.
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The intelligence community has found no evidence that Putin was aware of the timing of Navalny's death or directly ordered it. 

Putin likely didn't order death of Russian opposition leader Navalny, US official says

The intelligence community has found no evidence that Putin was aware of the timing of Navalny's death or directly ordered it.&nbsp;

US intelligence officials have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin likely didn't order the death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny in February, according to an official familiar with the determination.
While US officials believe Putin was ultimately responsible for the death of Navalny, who endured brutal conditions during his confinement, the intelligence community has found &ldquo;no smoking gun&rdquo; that Putin was aware of the timing of Navalny's death &mdash; which came soon before the Russian president's reelection &mdash; or directly ordered it, according to the official.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.
Soon after the Navalny's death, US President Joe Biden said Putin was ultimately responsible but did not accuse the Russian president of directly ordering it.
At the time, Biden said the US did not know exactly what had happened to Navalny but that &ldquo;there is no doubt&rdquo; that his death &ldquo;was the consequence of something that Putin and his thugs did.&rdquo; Navalny, 47, Russia's best-known opposition politician and Putin's most persistent foe, died Feb. 16 in a remote penal colony above the Arctic Circle while serving a 19-year sentence on extremism charges that he rejected as politically motivated.
He had been behind bars since January 2021 after returning to Russia from Germany, where he had been recovering from nerve-agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin.
Russian officials have said only that Navalny died of natural causes and have vehemently denied involvement both in the poisoning and in his death.
In March, a month after Navalny's death, Putin won a landslide reelection for a fifth term, an outcome that was never in doubt.
The Wall Street Journal first reported about the US intelligence determination.

Spreading false information about the army is a criminal offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison under a law Moscow adopted days after announcing what the Kremlin insists on calling a “special military operation” in Ukraine.

Crackdown on dissent at new low: who is Putin critic Darya Serenko in Moscow’s most wanted list?

Spreading false information about the army is a criminal offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison under a law Moscow adopted days after announcing what the Kremlin insists on calling a &ldquo;special military operation&rdquo; in Ukraine.

Russian authorities have put more Kremlin critics on a wanted list as its crackdown against dissent reaches unprecedented levels since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine more than two years ago.
Independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reported Tuesday that it found women's rights activist Darya Serenko and prominent journalist and author Mikhail Zygar in the Interior Ministry's database of individuals wanted on criminal charges. The entries don't specify the charges or when they were added to the list.
Both Serenko and Zygar have long left Russia.
The Kremlin's crackdown against opposition activists, independent journalists and government critics has intensified during the war. Hundreds have faced criminal charges over protests and remarks condemning the war in Ukraine, and thousands have been fined or briefly jailed.
Serenko, a longtime activist and author, co-founded the Feminist Anti-War Resistance group shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and moved to Georgia during the crackdown. Both she and the group were designated as &ldquo;foreign agents", a label that comes with additional government scrutiny.
Zygar, an author and a founding editor in chief of Russia's independent TV channel Dozhd, also left Russia after the invasion and was declared a &ldquo;foreign agent&rdquo;. Unconfirmed Russian media reports earlier this year said Zygar could be facing charges of spreading false information about the army over a social media post about Russian atrocities in Bucha, a suburb near Kyiv occupied for several weeks by Moscow's forces.
Spreading false information about the army is a criminal offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison under a law Moscow adopted days after announcing what the Kremlin insists on calling a &ldquo;special military operation&rdquo; in Ukraine.
The law has been widely used against those who publicly criticise the war or the Kremlin, including those who left Russia. Many have been tried and convicted in absentia.

Russia has repeatedly claimed that Ukraine was behind the ghastly terror attack without providing evidence.

Moscow terror attacks: Putin says Russia can't be target of Islamic fundamentalism  

Russia has repeatedly claimed that Ukraine was behind the ghastly terror attack without providing evidence.

Despite the Islamic State Khorasan terror group taking responsibility for the Moscow mass shooting that killed about 144 people, Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that their country can't be the target of Islamic fundamentalists.
In a televised address, Putin on April 4 said the Moscow attack was a ploy to damage Russia's interfaith harmony and unity.
"We have every reason to believe that the main goal of those who ordered the bloody, awful terrorist act in Moscow was to damage our unity," Putin said, according to Reuters news agency.
"There are no other goals visible, there are none, because Russia cannot be the target of terrorist attacks by Islamic fundamentalists. We are a country that demonstrates a unique example of interfaith harmony and unity, of inter-religious and inter-ethnic unity," he added.
The comments come hours after Nikolai Patrushev, who is the head of Russia's National Security Council, claimed that the United States bears some responsibility for the attack as it controls the Kyiv regime.
Speaking at a meeting in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)&mdash;a nine-country alliance focused on security and economic matters that includes China, India, and Iran&mdash;Patrushev stated, "They are trying to impose on us that the terrorist act was committed not by the Kyiv regime, but by supporters of radical Islamic ideology, perhaps members of the Afghan branch of IS."
He continued, "However, it is much more important to quickly establish who is the customer and sponsor of this monstrous crime. Its traces lead to the Ukrainian special services. But everyone knows that the Kyiv regime is not independent and is completely controlled by the United States."
Russia has repeatedly claimed that Ukraine was behind the ghastly terror attack without providing evidence. Ukraine has, however, denied involvement and the United States - which warned Russia beforehand of an impending attack by Islamist militants - has said Moscow's version is nonsense.
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The Russian President links 'radical Islamists' behind the Moscow concert hall attack to Ukraine, not the Islamic State.

Putin says 'radical Islamists' behind Moscow attack, links them to Ukraine

The Russian President links 'radical Islamists' behind the Moscow concert hall attack to Ukraine, not the Islamic State.

President Vladimir Putin on Monday acknowledged for the first time that "radical Islamists" were behind last week's attack on a concert hall outside Moscow, but suggested they were linked to Ukraine somehow.
Eleven people have been detained in connection with the attack, which saw camouflaged gunmen storm into Crocus City Hall, open fire on concert-goers and set the building ablaze, killing at least 139 people.
"We know that the crime was committed by the hands of radical Islamists, whose ideology the Islamic world itself has been fighting for centuries," Putin said in a televised meeting.
But the Russian leader said "many questions" remained unanswered, including why the attackers tried to flee to Ukraine -- a claim that Kyiv has rejected.
"Of course, it is necessary to answer the question, why, after committing the crime, the terrorists tried to go to Ukraine? Who was waiting for them there?" Putin asked.
"This atrocity may be just a link in a whole series of attempts by those who have been at war with our country since 2014," he said, referring to Ukraine and its allies.
Ukraine has described accusations it was involved as absurd.
"Putin was talking to himself again, and it was again broadcast on television. Again, he blames Ukraine," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address.
Islamic State jihadists have said several times since Friday that they were responsible, and IS-affiliated media channels have published graphic videos of the gunmen inside the venue.
The United States, which on March 7 warned about an "imminent" attack in Moscow by "extremists", has said IS bears "sole responsibility".
When asked about IS's claimed involvement, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday said that an investigation was still ongoing.
Officials expect the death toll to rise further, as rescuers were searching the site for remains on Monday and 97 people are still in hospital.
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The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack but Putin did not mention it in his address.

Putin links Ukraine to Moscow attack, Zelenskyy says Russia 'shifting the blame'

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack but Putin did not mention it in his address.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday accused Russia's Vladimir Putin of seeking to "shift the blame" onto Kyiv for the Moscow concert hall attack that killed 133 people.
"What happened yesterday in Moscow is obvious: Putin is just trying to blame it on someone else," Zelensky announced, after Putin said the suspects had been fleeing towards Ukraine.
"They always have the same methods," Zelensky added.
In a televised address earlier Saturday, President Putin said the four gunmen arrested for the deadly attack were "travelling towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the state border".
Kyiv has angrily dismissed the claims by the Russian leader, which come more than two years after Moscow invaded Ukraine.
"Instead of dealing with his Russian citizens, addressing them, was silent for a day, thinking about how to bring it to Ukraine," Zelensky said.
"Everything is absolutely predictable."
The Moscow attack has been claimed by the Islamic State group (IS).
It was the deadliest attack in Russia for almost two decades and the deadliest in Europe to have been claimed by IS.
Putin made no reference to the group's claims of responsibility in his address.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed strong retribution against those responsible for the barbaric terrorist attack on a Moscow concert hall.

Putin vows retribution for Moscow concert hall attacks, as death toll climbs to 133

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed strong retribution against those responsible for the barbaric terrorist attack on a Moscow concert hall.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to punish those behind a "barbaric terrorist attack" on a Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133, saying Russia had arrested four gunmen who were trying to flee to Ukraine.
Kyiv has strongly denied any connection, and Putin made no reference to claims of responsibility by the Islamic State in his first public remarks on the attack.
At least 133 people were killed when camouflaged gunmen stormed the Crocus City Hall, in Moscow's northern suburb of Krasnogorsk, and then set fire to the building on Friday evening.
The jihadist group has claimed the attack, writing Saturday on a Telegram channel that it was "carried out by four IS fighters armed with machine guns, a pistol, knives and firebombs," as part of "the raging war" with "countries fighting Islam".
It is the deadliest attack on Russia in almost two decades and the deadliest in Europe to have been claimed by the Islamic State.
Russian officials expect the death toll to rise further, with more than 100 injured in hospital.
"Terrorists, murderers, non-humans ... have only one unenviable fate: retribution and oblivion," Putin said in a televised address to the nation on Saturday.
<h2>'Barbaric'</h2>
Calling the attack a "barbaric, terrorist act", he said "all four direct perpetrators ... all those who shot and killed people, have been found and detained".
"They tried to escape and were travelling towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the state border," he added.
Putin also compared the attackers to "Nazis" and said the attack was an "atrocity, a strike against Russia and our people".
He named Sunday a day of national mourning.
Russia arrested 11 people in connection with the attack on Saturday, the FSB security service said.
"All the perpetrators, organisers and those who ordered this crime will be justly and inevitably punished," Putin said.
The FSB said earlier Saturday that the assailants had "contacts" in Ukraine, without providing further details.
Kyiv, facing a Russian military offensive for the past two years, said it had "nothing to do" with the attack, presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak said in a statement.
<h2>At least 133 killed </h2>
Russia's Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said rescue workers were still working on site on Saturday, pulling bodies from the burnt-out building.
"The emergency services have found more bodies while clearing the debris," it said in a statement on Telegram.
"The number of people killed in the terrorist attack has risen to 133. Search operations continue."
The governor of the Moscow region said rescuers would continue to scour the site for "several days."
Some 107 people were still in hospital, many in a critical condition, according to Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Friday, saying its fighters attacked "a large gathering" on Moscow's outskirts and "retreated to their bases safely".
Some witnesses filmed the gunmen from the upper floors as they walked through the stalls shooting people, footage shared on social media showed.
Then "the terrorists used a flammable liquid to set fire to the concert hall's premises, where spectators were located, including wounded," the Investigative Committee said.
Investigators said people died both from gunshot wounds and smoke inhalation after a fire engulfed the 6,000-seater venue.
Flames quickly spread through the venue on Friday, with screaming concert-goers rushing to emergency exits.
<h2>Blood queues</h2>
Putin did not address the Islamic State's claim of responsibility in his first public remarks on Saturday, more than 18 hours after the start of the attack.
The head of the state-run RT media outlet, Margarita Simonyan on Saturday posted two videos claiming to be interrogations of two handcuffed suspects, who both admitted to the attack but did not say who organised it.
Russian Telegram channels, including Baza which is close to the security services, and a lawmaker said some of the suspects were from Tajikistan, a post-Soviet country in Central Asia.
Tajikistan's foreign ministry told Russia's TASS news agency that authorities were "in close contact" with Moscow about the "supposed participation of the country's citizens in the terrorist attack".
In Moscow, residents stood in long lines in the rain to donate blood for those hospitalised, according to videos posted by state media outlets.
Memorial posters featuring a single candle replaced some advertising billboards, the RIA Novosti state agency reported.
Major events were cancelled across the country, including a friendly football match between Russia and Paraguay set to take place in Moscow on Monday.
Statements of condemnation from world leaders continued to roll in.
US warning dismissed 
Russia's powerful intelligence services were also in the spotlight in the wake of the attack.
Just three days before, Putin had publicly dismissed Western warnings of an imminent attack in Moscow as propaganda designed to scare Russian citizens.
On 7 March, the US embassy in Russia had issued a security alert saying it was "monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts".
Washington on Friday said it had directly warned Russian authorities about a "planned terrorist attack" possibly targeting "large gatherings" in Moscow.
But speaking to FSB chiefs last Tuesday, Putin said: "Recent provocative statements by a number of official Westerns structures about the possibility of terrorist attacks in Russia ... resembles outright blackmail and an intention to intimidate and destabilise our society."

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