Russian President Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via video link in Moscow, Russia December 28, 2024. File Photo: Sputnik/Sergei Ilyin/Kremlin via REUTERS

Putin congratulates Trump ahead of inauguration, says open to talks on Ukraine, nuclear arms

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via video link in Moscow, Russia December 28, 2024. File Photo: Sputnik/Sergei Ilyin/Kremlin via REUTERS

Putin apologises to Azerbaijan president for plane crash, without saying Russia at fault

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh during a meeting in Moscow, Russia December 10, 2024. Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via REUTERS

Russia's Putin meets Indian defence minister, RIA reports

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un meet in Pyongyang, North Korea June 19, 2024. Photo: Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Pool via REUTERS

Putin gifts North Korea a lion, bears and ducks

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 16, 2022. Sputnik/Alexander Demyanchuk/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Putin to visit India soon, says Russian govt

Russian President Vladimir Putin. File Photo: Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via REUTERS

Putin issues warning to US with new nuclear doctrine

Korean People's Army soldiers in Pyongyang. File Photo: Ed Jones/AFP

North Korea may end up sending Putin 100,000 troops for his war

FILE PHOTO: US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan June 28, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

Source says Trump told Putin not to escalate in Ukraine, Kremlin denies they spoke

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during their meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia. Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool

Modi calls for peace in Ukraine as he meets Putin at BRICS summit

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of a cultural forum dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Turkmen poet and philosopher Magtymguly Fragi, in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan October 11, 2024. Sputnik/Alexander Scherbak/Pool via REUTERS

Putin cements ties with Iranian president in Central Asia meeting

Russian President Vladimir Putin. File Photo: Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via REUTERS

Putin to meet Iran president in Turkmenistan Friday

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a meeting on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Astana, Kazakhstan July 4, 2024. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Pool via REUTERS

Putin was joking about support for Harris in US election, says foreign minister

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russia President Vladimir Putin. File Photo: AFP

India PM Modi speaks to Putin, says 'shared insights from Ukraine visit'