"Three months later, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine would turn him into a global pariah, isolating Russia from the world and restricting Putin's international travel. The last visit was also several years before Donald Trump was re-elected and upended years of closely nurtured US-India relations with inflammatory rhetoric and some of the world's most punishing import tariffs, throwing Delhi into a tailspin."
"Putin arrives in Delhi after rejecting the latest Ukraine peace proposal proposed by the US, confident that recent advances by Russian forces on the battlefield have strengthened his hand. Petr Topychkanov, Moscow-based senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, said that for Russia, the importance of this visit lies primarily in the fact that it is happening at all. It will signal that Russia is returning to something resembling normal international relations, said Topychkanov."
Vladimir Putin returned to India after almost four years, following a previous five-hour visit cut short by the covid pandemic. Three months after that earlier visit Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, producing international isolation and travel restrictions for Putin. Subsequent geopolitical shifts including Donald Trump's re-election and disruptive US trade and rhetoric toward India complicated US-India ties. The Delhi summit functions as a demonstration of enduring Russia-India partnership and resistance to US pressure. Putin arrived having rejected a US peace proposal for Ukraine and emboldened by recent battlefield gains, while India confronts heightened geopolitical risks and difficult strategic choices.
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