Vladimir Putin's spokesperson stated that Russia intends to utilise the New Delhi summit to safeguard its trade ties with India from US sanctions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will land in Delhi on Thursday, December 4, for summit talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the next day. The summit, an annual occurrence before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, will be held in New Delhi on Friday, December 5.

Several pacts are on the agenda, including the deepening of defence cooperation and the insulation of trade from US sanctions.

According to a media brief by the Kremlin, Putin's spokesperson, Dimitri Peskov, said that Russia intends to use the summit to protect trade ties with India from the sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump's administration. Apart from that, a key defence

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