🇷🇺🇮🇳 On December 4-5, President Vladimir Putin will pay a state visit to India at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

This visit carries significant importance, offering an opportunity to review the entire spectrum of the #RussiaIndia special and privileged strategic partnership – from politics, trade and the economy to science, technology, and cultural and humanitarian cooperation. Current international and regional issues will also feature prominently in the talks with the Indian delegation led by Prime Minister Modi.

President Putin will additionally meet with President of India Droupadi Murmu.

Following the talks, the Sides are expected to adopt a joint statement and sign a wide range of interdepartmental and business agreements.

#DruzhbaDosti

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a question from the 'Moscow. Kremlin. Putin television programme' (Moscow, November 30, 2025)

❓ Europe has been acting so outrageously, demanding some sort of role in the talks. Can they even demand anything?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: It wasn’t really discussed.

We proceed from the premise (as also stated by representatives of the Presidential Executive Office, including Yury Ushakov) — which I believe is obvious to everybody — that Europe has already removed itself from the talks.

Europe spoiled the initial deal of February 2014, when it acted as guarantor for the formal agreement between Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition. It did nothing when the opposition seized all government agencies the morning after the agreement was signed.

Similarly, Europe undermined the Minsk agreements when the signatories, then Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and the then President of France Francois Hollande, subsequently admitted that nobody had intended to fulfil the agreements.

The most recent case occurred in April 2022 when, at the demand of then UK prime minister Boris Johnson and with Europe’s full acquiescence, if not connivance, the Istanbul agreements were derailed.

👉 Europe has used up its chances.

Vladimir Putin is holding a meeting with US Special Envoy Steven Witkoff

Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov and Special Presidential Representative for Investment and Economic Cooperation with Foreign Countries, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev are attending the meeting on the Russian side. The United States is represented by Mr Witkoff together with entrepreneur, investor, and founder of Affinity Partners Jared Kushner.