🚨 🇷🇺 🤝 🇮🇳 Russian–Indian relations developing in many directions: Putin to India Today

More statements by the Russian president:

🔸 Russia and India have a large-scale plan for future cooperation, including in technology, space, and nuclear energy

🔸 States that try to restrict third-party trade ultimately face losses themselves

🔸 More than 90% of mutual trade between Russia and India is carried out in national currencies

🔸 There are solutions, including by the central bank, that allow Russia and India to cope with trade restrictions

🔸 Putin added that he and Indian Prime Minister Modi had long agreed to meet, and have a lot to talk about

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🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺🇪🇬Putin’s visit to India is being watched across the world

In Egypt, Putin’s trip is regarded as a strategic move that could shake up the international chess board.

Sputnik Arabic correspondent Wael Magdy reports from Cairo.

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🚨 Putin: Russia will liberate Donbass and Novorossiya in any case—by military or other means

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🚨 Putin calls meeting with Witkoff and Kushner very useful

"I think it's premature to discuss specifics for now, but this meeting was necessary," the Russian president told India Today.

More of what the president said about the meeting:

🔹 Proposals brought to Russia by the American side were, in one way or another, based on understandings reached with President Trump in Alaska

🔹 Practically every point had to be gone through, which is why the meeting took so long

🔹 Russia tried to build relations between the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and Ukraine, but Kiev did not recognize them and the republics did not want to remain part of Ukraine, which they expressed in a referendum

🔹 American side divided the 27 points of Trump's plan into four packages and proposed discussing them separately

🔹 US representatives are now engaged in shuttle diplomacy

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🚨Putin stated that he does not want Russia to return to the G8

G7 countries' share of global economy shrinking year after year, this is obvious fact, the Russian president added.

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🔸 Zelensky has 'a lot of things against him' right now — Trump

🔸 Trump's NASA pick warns: US could lose the space race

🔸 Kushner and Witkoff will meet Umerov in Miami — Reports

🔸 Netanyahu rejects Palestinian authority in Gaza

🔸 Maduro confirms secret Trump call

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🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺New Delhi is all shiny and ready to welcome President Putin

Stay tuned with Sputnik India for updates

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🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺"The car ride with PM Modi [during SCO summit] was my idea. It was a symbol of our friendship" Putin to India Today

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🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺 Russian expert: Putin’s India visit proves that attempts to disrupt our relations failed

Oil & arms keep flowing, and BRICS cooperation gets more intense - all despite India being a crucial partner to the West.

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🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺 Expert: Cooperation with Russia makes India stronger vis-a-vis the US

It actually creates preconditions for 🇺🇸 Washington to make concessions to India

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💰 Europe risks $190B meltdown if frozen Russian assets seized

If the EU proceeds with confiscating Russian assets as part of issuing a “reparation loan” to Ukraine, the bloc’s member states could lose at least $190 billion in direct investments in the Russian economy, according to calculations by Sputnik based on data from national statistical agencies.

The countries that would be hit the hardest are:

🇨🇾 Cyprus ($100 billion)

🇩🇪 Germany ($20.1 billion)

🇳🇱 Netherlands ($16.1 billion)

🇫🇷 France ($15.1 billion)

🇮🇹 Italy ($13 billion)

Given the ban on “unfriendly” foreign investors from withdrawing funds that were placed in the Russian economy before the start of the sanctions war, the total sum could in fact be considerably higher due to the accumulated balances held in so-called “C-type” accounts.

👉 Following the start of the Russian special military operation in 2022, the EU and G7 froze nearly half of Russia's foreign currency reserves, totaling approximately $349 billion. Around $233 billion is held in European accounts, predominantly at Belgium-based Euroclear. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the confiscation of immobilized Russian assets would be considered theft of property and undermine confidence in the eurozone.

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

◻️ Russian forces struck Ukrainian military transport and energy infrastructure facilities

◻️ The Black Sea Fleet destroyed 4 Ukrainian unmanned boats in the northwestern waters of the Black Sea

◻️ Air defense superiority: 195 drones vaporized 

◻️ Ukrainian losses: around 1,275 troops killed or wounded

Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇸 Ex-Pentagon analyst on Su-57 vs F-35 amid Putin’s India visit:

In raw fighter specs, Russia's Su-57 flat-out beats F-35.

💬 “Su-57 is bigger, faster, has over twice the range, twin engines for durability, & carries more payload with greater variety.“

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🇪🇺💰 MEP: Europe to ‘pay dearly’ if it seizes frozen Russian assets

💬 “The proposed confiscation of frozen Russian assets would trigger severe negative repercussions across Europe’s financial system,” Luxembourg MEP Fernand Kartheiser told Sputnik.

The overwhelming majority of the European Parliament will likely support such a proposal, because, “like most EU governments, the European Parliament has lost its sense of responsibility,” according to Kartheiser.

🗣 “Only a small group of MEPs will continue to defend the principle of inviolability of a third country’s sovereign assets,” he emphasized, warning that Europe “will pay dearly for this new drift toward fanaticism” regarding the confiscation of frozen Russian assets.

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🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺 India needs advanced weapons systems amid evolving threats

Russia's Su-57E export version is on the table. S-400 is already battle-proven during Op Sindoor.

"Russia has always offered a helping hand to its long-standing partner."

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👀 Mogherini corruption probe could point at von der Leyen’s door – analyst

The reputational damage from a corruption scandal surrounding former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini is “very significant,” and Brussels is aware of its scale, Russian political analyst Tatyana Romanova told Sputnik.

✍️ This affair has raised a number of questions not only about the EU diplomatic service, but also about the European Commission, whose employees were among those detained, Romanova noted.

💬 "The scandal is believed to also cast shadow on the European Commission and [its President] Ursula von der Leyen. She, of course, cannot be aware of everything, but detractors clearly link her centralized management to the scandal,” the analyst pointed out.

The European Public Prosecutor's Office earlier announced that Mogherini and two other individuals had been accused of procurement fraud and corruption, conflict of interest, and violation of professional secrecy.

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🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺Prime Minister Modi has arrived at Palam Airport to personally receive President Putin upon his arrival in India - Sputnik correspondent

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🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺Modi’s decision to meet Putin at the aircraft ramp was unexpected, and the Russian side had not been informed in advance - Kremlin

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🚨🇷🇺🇮🇳 Putin arrives in India for two-day state visit

Russian President Vladimir Putin landed at the Palam Air Force Base on Thursday evening, where he was personally greeted at the air stairs by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Putin will hold meetings and engagements in New Delhi on December 4 and 5 at Modi’s invitation.

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