India and Russia are in talks for a summit meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin later this year, according to the sources. “It is being discussed. There are high level discussions going on,” said Indian ambassador to Russia Pavan Kapoor, according to a report by a Russian news agency.
The annual bilateral summit between India and Russia was unable to take place in 2017 due to the attention that the war in Russia and Ukraine received on a global scale.
The two leaders did meet at the SCO summit in Samarkand the previous year, where Modi is credited with telling Putin that this isn't the age of war. Putin skipped the G20 conference in India because, according to the authorities, he was preoccupied with Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine. Russia was represented by foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in the summit that concluded with a joint declaration that was made possible by a consensus on the Ukraine war.