Indian Reporter Asks Putin About Upcoming Visit, BRICS, PM Modi at SPIEF 2026 | AC1G

Added: 2026-06-05

[00:00:00]the global energy sphere. I'm talking about new agreements between Russia and China.

[00:00:05]Colleagues, who is going to be next?

[00:00:09]Mij Jai Joshi, director general and editor-in-chief of the Press Trust of India.

[00:00:18]>> Well, thank you for this opportunity and for your hospitality.

[00:00:22]Uh Mr. President, as you're you're preparing to travel to India for the BRICS Summit in September and the global community is watching the evolving dynamics between Moscow and New Delhi very closely.

[00:00:36]Uh while the special and privileged strategic partnership remains the cornerstone for both nations, some observers say that India's alignment with Washington creates structural frictions with Russia.

[00:00:52]From your perspective, how will you serve to inject fresh momentum into bilateral relationship?

[00:01:00]What steps can be taken to ensure that Russia-India ties remain resilient against external geopolitical pressures?

[00:01:09]And how would you describe the India relation India-Russia relations in this redrawn geopolitical landscape? In your words, please. Thank you.

[00:01:23]>> You gave the description yourself and it is true. We enjoy a special privileged strategic partnership. That is how I characterize this relationship.

[00:01:32]It did not occur yesterday or 105 years ago.

[00:01:37]We This is something we've been working upon for decades. Back in 1947 when the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with the Indian Republic, we have been doing everything to support the establishment of a new state, a new independent state.

[00:01:54]And I'm glad to say that thanks to the hard work and the talent of the Indian people, India has made great and important achievements in its development.

[00:02:07]We all know very well, all those gathered here must know that India is one of the leading economies of the world that shows the highest rates of economic growth.

[00:02:19]And this is not something that comes out of the blue. This is a result of hard work that the government has been doing under the leadership of the Prime Minister Modi.

[00:02:32]>> Because these rates of development have been demonstrated by India while plans and strategies are implemented formulated by Modi as the head of the government of the Republic of India.

[00:02:50]We are engaged in a lot of joint efforts and we hope that in upcoming years we will reach 100 billion US dollars in mutual trade. Now it's about 58 billion US dollars or 60 billion US dollars, but we have all the foundations to work more actively and to reach more ambitious goals.

[00:03:14]And we are not only talking about our plans in energy including nuclear energy.

[00:03:21]Kudankulam NPP is now being constructed.

[00:03:26]New platforms will emerge in terms of hydrocarbons. We will be continuing working together. One of We have one of the largest investment projects into the Indian economy in your country and we will be doing mutual investments.

[00:03:44]Everyone knows that India is very active in pharmaceutical industry and our economic operators are ready to propose a lot of a lot of interesting projects. I'm not going to enumerate all of the initiatives, but we will out or we have already outlined long perspective plans that are of interest for both India and Russia.

[00:04:10]Your question was seemed a bit strange to me. You said that the cooperation between India and the US creates difficulties in the relations between Russia and India. I don't think that this is the case. It's English Why why would you think that? We're ready that we're glad that India is developing its relations with all the countries. It's a great country. 1.5 billion people, a large economy, the largest democracy as many people say. Of course, it it is only natural that it develops its economy in accordance with its interest, with those countries that it deems necessary. Another thing is that the US are trying to put pressure on India in some matters. For example, when it comes to cooperation with Russia on some tracks, but everyone has understood that uh pressure putting pressure on Narendra Modi that heads the largest population in the world is detrimental for international relations and for bilateral relations. Um doesn't matter where this pressure comes from.

[00:05:20]We don't see any negative consequences.

[00:05:24]I think that we can um come to an agreement with all the participants of this process.

[00:05:32]And as of today, there I would say are no serious repercussions emanating from this state of affairs. We're developing our ties with India and we'll continue doing that, and we deem India to be a very reliable partner.

[00:05:51]James Jordan, representative of the US the the Associated Press agency, please.

[00:06:01]Please be as genuine as you can.

[00:06:03]>> The organization of this gathering is always fascinating to hear. President Putin's views on many global matters.

[00:06:09]I've been here for 3 years now, and it's always an interesting experience. So, thank you.

[00:06:16]President Putin, um yesterday, hundreds of drones were launched into Russia from Ukraine.

[00:06:22]Some struck uh a naval base nearby. Some struck an oil depot nearby, uh causing a plume of smoke over St. Petersburg, your home city. Flights were also disrupted into the airport here.

[00:06:37]More broadly, the Russian economy has dipped recently.

[00:06:41]Your personal approval ratings have also dipped.

[00:06:45]And the US says the invasion has become a strategic disaster. Those are the words of Marco Rubio.

[00:06:53]He also added that Russia won't achieve its war aims by military means alone.

[00:06:59]Given this, is it still logical to pursue your war aim of controlling the whole of the Donbas region, or are you ready to make a deal? Thank you.

[00:07:13]>> Thank you very much. One thing uh excludes another. We can control the whole the whole Donbas uh region, and we can strike a deal. One thing does not contradict another. Why would you think that it does? You have referred to a statement of Marco Rubio. It He's a very serious partner, and we stay in contact with him. Recently, I think he gave a speech in the Senate or in the Congress.

[00:07:39]As far as domestic uh policy issues go, uh it is a complicated situation.

[00:07:46]Someone supports him, someone attacks him.

[00:07:52]Secretary of State talks about his domestic matters, and it is of interest to us, but we are more interested in a real situation.

[00:08:01]You're you're talking about the conflict in Ukraine. So, we are interested in the real state of affairs on this track.

[00:08:09]What does it look like?

[00:08:12]It looks as follows.

[00:08:22]First and foremost, one should pay attention to it.

[00:08:26]The Russian armed forces are advancing along the whole line of contact.

[00:08:32]There is no place where we would not be advancing.

[00:08:41]The most important problem or issue of the Ukrainian armed forces is a critical lack of a a personnel of servicemen.