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| The Russian president has met with Rajnath Singh in Moscow | The Russian president has met with Rajnath Singh in Moscow |
| Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday held talks with Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, the Kremlin press service has said. | |
| The press service circulated a muted video showing Putin shaking hands with Singh and other officials. The meeting was also attended by Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov. | |
| Earlier in the day, Singh and Belousov held separate talks, discussing defense and security cooperation between the two countries. | |
| During the meeting, Singh said that “despite the geopolitical challenges and immense public and private pressure on India, India has made a conscious decision to not only continue close contacts with Russia but also to deepen and expand our cooperation.” | |
| “We will always stand together with our Russian colleagues,” he stressed. | |
| On Monday, the Indian defense minister visited Russia’s Kaliningrad Region, where he attended a ceremony to commission a new frigate built for the Indian Navy at the Yantar shipyard. The vessel, INS Tushil, is the seventh of the Talwar-class frigates ordered by the country’s Navy, and the inaugural one of the third production batch. |