Overview
- Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a closed one‑on‑one meeting on December 4, with official negotiations in narrow and expanded formats on December 5.
- The leaders are set to deliver a joint statement to the media and approve a Russia–India economic cooperation program running through 2030.
- A ceremony will see the exchange of ten intergovernmental or interagency documents, while commercial entities plan to sign more than 15 agreements and memoranda.
- The Russian delegation includes senior ministers, the central bank chief and major business figures, and a launch event for RT India is planned with RT’s editor‑in‑chief.
- Before the trip, Putin met U.S. envoys Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner for talks Ushakov called useful and substantive, saying recent battlefield gains affected the tone, with the envoys later briefing Washington and Ukraine.