NSA Doval meets Russia’s First Deputy PM, discusses military-technical ties

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held talks with Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov in Moscow on bilateral military-technical ties and implementation of joint tasks in strategic sectors.

Mr. Doval is in Russia to carry essential talks on bilateral power and defence ties and to arrange the bottom for Russian President Vladmir Putin’s go to to India later this 12 months.

Mr. Doval and Mr. Manturov met on Friday (August 8, 2025), in response to the Russian Embassy in India.

The talks coated “topical problems with #RussiaIndia military-technical cooperation, in addition to the implementation of joint tasks in different strategic sectors, together with civil plane manufacturing, metallurgy, and the chemical trade,” the embassy mentioned in an X submit.

On Thursday (August 7, 2025), Mr. Doval referred to as on Mr. Putin on the Kremlin to debate bilateral cooperation between the 2 nations.

During the assembly, he reiterated New Delhi’s dedication to proceed cooperation on all fronts with Russia regardless of outdoors strain.

The NSA’s go to to Russia comes within the backdrop of US President Donald Trump slapping a further 25 per cent tariff on Indian items as a penalty for getting Russian oil, doubling it to 50 per cent.

According to sources, Mr. Doval prolonged an invite to President Putin on behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to go to India later this 12 months, which Mr. Putin has accepted with gratitude.