🚨🇷🇺🇮🇳 Key statements from Putin and Modi at the Russia–India importers forum plenary session

Russian President Vladimir Putin said:

🟠 The Russia–India Economic Cooperation Program envisions reaching $100 billion in annual trade by 2030

🟠Bilateral trade has shown record growth over the past three years, reaching $64 billion in 2024

🟠 The North–South Transport Corridor project is moving forward at full speed

🟠 Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, India pursues an independent and sovereign policy

🟠 Thanks to sound economic management, India is strengthening its technological sovereignty

🟠 India and Russia have growing opportunities across many sectors, but they are not yet fully utilized

🟠 Strong business ties between the two countries provide a reliable foundation for the partnership

🟠 Russia aims to develop multifaceted relations with India beyond just energy and defense

🟠 Moscow is studying India’s experience in import substitution and industrial localization

🟠 The swift conclusion of a preferential trade agreement between India and the EAEU would positively impact economic ties

🟠 The use of national currencies in trade ensures the stability of financial operations regardless of external conditions

🟠 Russia will send a high-level delegation to the Artificial Intelligence Summit in February 2026

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said:

🟠 India and Russia can reach $100 billion in annual trade well before the 2030 target

🟠Moscow and New Delhi are taking steps to advance a free trade agreement between India and the Eurasian Economic Union

🟠 Russo–Indian relations are based on mutual respect and trust and have always stood the test of time

🟠 India and Russia have agreed on new steps to strengthen cultural and humanitarian cooperation

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🇷🇺🇮🇳Putin on India’s rapid rise: “India has changed profoundly… but one thing remains: friendship and our mutual interest in developing cooperation.”

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD WEEKLY UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️ BEZYMYANNOYE IN DONETSK REGION LIBERATED

The liberation of the settlement of Bezymyannoye in the Donetsk region allows the Russian Armed Forces to strengthen their positions in the area for an advance towards the city of Druzhkovka, key to capturing Kramatorsk and Slavyansk.

🟠 In retaliation for terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime, Russian air and missile forces conducted five strikes on Ukrainian defense, energy and transport infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces

🟠 Seven settlements including Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) and Volchansk were liberated over the past week by Russian forces

🟠 The Black Sea Fleet destroyed seven unmanned vessels launched by the Ukrainian Armed Forces

🟠 Air defense superiority: five guided long-range Neptune missiles, one HIMARS rocket and 1,120 fixed-wing drones were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past seven days

🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 9,050 troops killed or wounded

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🚫 European elites in 'denial mode' over Putin’s India visit – Pepe Escobar

The geopolitical analyst believes they’re too absorbed in planning their perpetual war with Russia to notice the world changing around them—leaving Europe behind.

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🔊 Scott Ritter: New US National Security Strategy rejects Russophobia, buries nuclear war fears

The updated US NSS sees restoring strategic stability with Russia as one of its main foreign policy priorities in Europe.

🟠 The strategy recognizes that Russia has been artificially cast as a threat, and that the consequences of this "miscasting" have been a "disaster" for Europe, and a threat to US national security, the ex-intel officer told Sputnik

🟠 The Trump administration sees this as inherently destabilizing policy, since confrontation with Russia "ultimately means nuclear war"

🟠 Euro hawks’ Russophobic policy is also "incompatible" with US national security

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🔊 Scott Ritter: New US National Security Strategy slams NATO's door on Ukraine

The updated strategy puts an end to and "drives a stake through the heart of the beast" of European and Ukraine’s unrealistic expectations regarding NATO membership, the ex-intel officer told Sputnik.

The new NSS says NATO should stop being perceived as a constantly expanding alliance.

It also signals “the end of the European enterprise” and the idea that Europe is a geopolitical equal of the US that's able to “dictate” policy outcomes to Washington, Ritter says.

“That’s over. The United States says no, you’re done.”

Beyond that, the NSS’s point on no NATO expansion and lack of positioning Russia as a threat effectively means “there’s no legitimate reason for NATO to exist,” unless it can transform into a purely defensive alliance.

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🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺 Russian tech could provide India with the power its rivals fear most

Top military analyst Igor Korotchenko breaks down India’s air defence strategy, S-400 capabilities, Su-57 offer, & more:

(00:13) S-400 in Indo–Pakistan confrontation
(01:09) Ukraine’s ATACMS strike on Russia repelled by S-400
(01:28) S-400 vs Patriot
(02:08) India to field 10 S-400 regiments
(02:43) Localisation of Su-57
(03:06) Why Su-57 offer is strategically important
(03:49) Tech transfer under Make in India
(04:22) Why F-35 comes with backdoors
(05:30) Indo-Pacific arms race intensifies

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🚨🇺🇸 Bombshell changes to US National Security Strategy conceal pivot to China - observer

The new strategy document offers criticism of NATO expansion and jettisons Russia’s longtime characterization as a ‘threat’ to US national security, but veteran geopolitical analyst Brian Berletic remains skeptical regarding its broader implications.

💬 “Upon reading the entire Strategy, it is clear there is no fundamental change,” Berletic told Sputnik, commenting on the document’s declaration of America’s “continued pursuit of global primacy,” and preparations for conflicts against “adversaries,” either directly or through “burden sharing,” (i.e. by proxy).

The new characterization of Russia is a signal of the US’s desire to “freeze the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, not end it,” Berletic believes.

💬 “As suggested in the paper and explicitly laid out by US Secretary of War Pet Hegseth in February…Europe will assume more costs and risks involved in forcing a freeze while the US focuses on the containment of China. In other words, this is merely a narrative to implement ‘burden sharing’ and ‘strategic sequencing’, focusing on China’s containment now and circling back around to containing Russia later,” the observer argues.

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📹 Putin departs New Delhi after a two-day state visit to India

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🇮🇳🇷🇺Inside the Indian veggie feast served to Putin

Before departing India after a two-day state visit, Vladimir Putin was hosted by Indian President Droupadi Murmu at a vegetarian dinner — a refined showcase of India’s regional flavors and culinary artistry.

🥣 Starter

• A delicate moringa leaf and mung bean consommé, lightly spiced and finished with millet

🥟 Appetizers

• Morel mushrooms stuffed with walnut chutney
• Black chickpea kebabs with mint sauce
• Steamed vegetable momos with water chestnut

🍛 Main Course

• Paneer roulade with dried fruits in saffron sauce
• Spiced spinach, fenugreek and green peas
• Tandoor-baked stuffed potatoes in yogurt marinade
• Mini eggplants in a sweet-spiced glaze
• Braised beans with tomato and onion
• Nut and saffron slow-cooked basmati rice

🍨 Dessert

•Warm almond halwa with toasted nuts
•Traditional Indian kulfi ice cream infused with saffron, pistachios and cardamom

🥤 Fresh Juices

Pomegranate • Orange • Carrot and ginger

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🚨 Striking energy targets, Ukraine hurts its European funders

Ukrainian attacks on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) infrastructure are part of Kiev's terrorist strategy, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said

Ukraine's all-out attacks on energy facilities:

▫️ Attempts to hit Russian oil refineries

▫️ Attacks on Black Sea port infrastructure

▫️ Strikes on energy supply logistics chains

▫️ Now — the 83-million-ton-per-year CPC infrastructure, the main route transporting Caspian oil to global markets

CPC sabotage

➖ On November 29, Ukrainian forces hit a maritime terminal near Novorossiysk with unmanned boats

➖ Ukrainian drones previously hit the CPC on November 25, struck the consortium’s Novorossiysk office in late September and targeted the Kropotkinskaya pumping station in February

European energy market

◼️ European nations face rising pressure as the European Commission pushes to end all Russian oil imports by 2027

◼️ The CPC is crucial for delivering Kazakhstan’s oil to Europe, where over 70% of the country’s exports now go, ranking it the EU’s third-largest supplier

◼️ The cost of transit via the CPC route is roughly three times cheaper than via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which still needs further investment, making CPC vital for the EU after it imposed an import ban on Russian energy

◼️ Ukraine's attacks on the CPC affect stock markets, insurance rates, logistics costs, supply volumes and ultimately energy prices for EU countries already hit hard by a prolonged energy crisis

Europe wires billions in aid to Ukraine

🔸 European countries continue to fund Ukraine despite own economic hurdles. It has delivered roughly $197 billion in aid to Ukraine since 2022

🔸 Energy supply risks, economic slowdown and re-industrialization pressures in the EU are fueling calls to seize Russia’s sovereign assets

By hitting energy infrastructure, Ukraine is hurting its own allies in a vicious cycle:

👉 Critical energy targets struck

👉 Economic fallout hits the West

👉 Ukraine grows ever more dependent on foreign aid

👉 Seizure of Russian assets pushed under the guise of ‘compensation’

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