Russian President Vladimir Putin meets NSA Ajit Doval 7 August 2025 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on Thursday (August 7, 2025), the officials confirmed here. Sources indicated the importance of the meeting because the day after US President Donald Trump imposed more tariffs in India and quoted the ongoing purchase of Russian oil by Indian entities.
Previously, when he spoke to the Russian Secretary of Security Council Sergei Shoig, Mr. Doval said that the plans for the Indian visit to President Putin are “almost completed”. During her exchanges, NSA thanked Russia for the support of India after the terrorist attack of Pahalgam 22 April and said that the Indian “strategic and special partnership” with Russia is of increased importance because the world is going through a “turbulent situation”.
“We have a very special relationship and a long relationship and we greatly appreciate our strategic partnership. We had high -level orders and these high -level orders contributed very much. We are very excited to learn about visiting his President Putin to India, I think the data is almost completed now,” Mr. Doval said with Mr. Shoig. The Russian site said in its statement that both teams discussed bilateral cooperation in “multilateral formats and exchanged views on topical questions of international security”.
In the preparatory interaction on Wednesday (August 6, 2025), the Indian Ambassador in Russia Vinay Kumar sat down with the Russian representative of the Minister of Defense Colonel Aleksandra Fomin and discussed two -sided cooperation on defense related matters. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that the military relationship in India-Rusko would be “further strengthened” in the coming months. Ambassador Kumar accompanied Mr. Dovál at a meeting with President Putin.
Both parties have been leading in discussions since the beginning of the year to complicate the details of the visit of President Putin in India. Mr. Putin last visited India 6 December 2021, when India organized an annual meeting of the Summit in Hyderabad House. Two and a half months later, on February 24, 2022, he ordered a “special military operation” against Ukraine, which began a conflict that has persisted since then. Prime Minister Modi visited Moscow in July 2024, when Russia hosted 22. Russian-India annual summit. In May, the Kremlin confirmed that President Putin would visit India for another summit this year.
Both sides intended consultation under all mechanisms at the official level in recent weeks and the Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar also met his counterpart Sergei Lavrov twice in July-V Brazil during the Brics Summit and at the Secretary of Foreign Ministers in Shanghai cooperation in China.
“More importantly, the summit meetings have always been the basin points. They always gave our relationship a new direction,” Mr. Doval told Shoigu ready to host President Putin.
The Ministry of External Affairs responded to the last statement of President Trump’s tariffs to India as an “extremely unfortunate”.
While officials did not give the date to visit President Putin, the tension in India-USA prepared for the high level of involvement between the new Delhi and Moscow. Hind reported that the Prime Minister Modi had a reach to East Asia at the end of August, expected to visit Japan and another country. Thursday (August 7, 2025) in the evening was also witnessing a telephone interview between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Brazil Lula. Prime Minister Modi said after a telephone call: “A strong partnership focused on people among global southern nations benefits everyone.”
The current atmosphere of foreign policy has performed in Mr. Doval’s contract in Moscow, who said to Mr. Shoig: “Excellence, you said the world is going through a very turbulent situation and there is some unpredictability and uncertainty, and in an environment like this, it has a very special role.”
Published – August 2025 9:23
