President Putin is on a two-day state visit for the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit scheduled in Delhi on December 5

Russian President Vladimir Putin travelled with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the same car after latter received him at the Palam airport in Delhi on Thursday evening. This was a redux — a return of favour — after PM Modi rode with Putin in the Russian leader's car in Tianjin, China, three months ago.

President Putin is on a two-day state visit for the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit scheduled in Delhi on December 5.

Modi and Putin had travelled in the same vehicle, assigned for Putin in that case, to the venue of their bilateral meeting after the proceedings at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit venue at Tianjin in September 2025.

On Thursday, Modi esc

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