Moscow. Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday met Russian President Vladimir Putin. The meeting came hours after Mr Jaishankar held wide-ranging talks with his counterpart Sergey Lavrov.
It largely focused on expanding the trade ties between the two countries. The meeting comes amid Trump’s tariffs and pressure on India to stop buying oil from Russia, claiming that it fuelled the Ukraine war.
“We believe that relations between India and Russia have been among the steadiest of the major relationships in the world after the Second World War,” Mr Jaishankar said at a joint media briefing with Mr Lavrov.
“Geo-political convergence, leadership contacts and popular sentiment remain its key drivers,” he said.
Earlier today, Mr Jaishankar said that India-Russia ties are the “steadiest” of relationships in the world after the Second World War.
