Overview
- Ajit Doval delivered the keynote at the International Security Forum in Moscow on May 28, urging states to reject double standards in fighting terrorism and to take decisive action against sponsors of terror.
- He raised the April 22, 2025 Pahalgam attack as an example of state‑backed violence and thanked Russia for condemning the strike while using the platform to internationalise India’s security grievances.
- Doval warned that instability in West Asia threatens the safe, uninterrupted movement of trade through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea and called for special international attention to those waterways.
- On May 28–29 he held a series of bilateral meetings with Sergei Shoigu, Denis Manturov and Nikolai Patrushev, visited Roscosmos facilities and reviewed defence, energy, space and Arctic maritime connectivity proposals.
- He pressed for urgent reform of post‑1945 institutions to give the Global South greater voice, a move that links India’s practical security cooperation with Russia to broader diplomatic aims such as upcoming BRICS security discussions.