PM Modi will not visit Moscow for WWII victory celebrations

The prime minister conveyed to Putin that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh would represent India at the event on May 9, which would mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the former Soviet Union against the Nazi Germany in 1945.

prime minister conveyed to him that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh would represent India at the event on May 9, which would mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the former Soviet Union against the Nazi Germany in 1945. prime minister conveyed to him that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh would represent India at the event on May 9, which would mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the former Soviet Union against the Nazi Germany in 1945.

A meeting between Modi and Xi on the sidelines of the BRICS summit at Kazan in Russia in October 2024 had brought the India-China relations back on track, after it hit a new low over the military stand-off for four-and-a-half years along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh.

Beijing, however, recently extended support to Islamabad in the wake of the escalation of tension between India and Pakistan following the April 22 terrorist attack near Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir.

Singh will call on Putin and have a meeting with Russian Defence Minister Andrey Belousov.