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Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday wished Russian President Vladimir Putin on his birthday and expressed his anticipation of welcoming him to India for the upcoming India-Russia annual summit.
During a phone call, the leaders reviewed progress on their bilateral agenda and reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthen the India-Russia special and privileged strategic partnership.
Spoke with my friend President Putin and conveyed warm birthday greetings and best wishes for his good health and long life. Deeply appreciate his personal commitment to deepening India–Russia ties over the years.@KremlinRussia_E
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 7, 2025
Modi reiterated that he looks forward to hosting Putin in India. The annual summit is scheduled for early December.
This is part of the annual bilateral summit since 2000, and there have been 22 annual summits which have taken place alternatively in India and Russia. The last summit was held on July 8-9, 2024, in Moscow when PM Narendra Modi travelled there.
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Putin, who has visited India regularly since October 2000, had last visited New Delhi in 2021.
Modi and Putin had met in Tianjin on September 1 on the sidelines of the SCO leaders’ summit on August 31-September 1, when Modi also confirmed that Putin would be travelling to India in December this year. “We’ve been in constant touch. There have also been many high-level meetings between the two sides regularly. 140 crore Indians are eagerly waiting to welcome you for our 23rd summit in December this year,” he had said.
On September 17, Modi spoke to Putin, after the Russian leader called him to wish on his 75th birthday. This was their third phone conversation since August. When Modi and Putin last met at the SCO summit in Tianjin on September 1 — their first meeting after the US imposed 25% additional tariffs on India for Russian oil purchase — they had underlined “bilateral cooperation, including in the economic, financial and energy sectors”.
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