Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit India to attend the BRICS summit to be held in New Delhi in September, 2026. Kremlin assistant Yuri Ushakov announced this on Tuesday.
The BRICS summit is scheduled to be held on September 12 and 13 in New Delhi. This visit will be Putin’s second visit to India within the last one year. In December 2025, he participated in the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit, where he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed strengthening strategic relations between the two countries.
India is holding the chairmanship of BRICS for the year 2026 and will host the grouping for the fourth time. In this sequence, the 18th BRICS summit is being hosted in New Delhi. Foreign Minister S. This event will be held under the leadership of Jaishankar, in which foreign ministers and senior officials of BRICS member countries and partner nations will participate. The theme of the summit is “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”. The theme is based on a people-centric and humanity-first approach.
BRICS is basically a group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Its main objective is to promote economic, political and social cooperation among emerging economies. This group represents the bulk of the world’s population and a significant share of global GDP.
Over time, new members like Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have joined it, thereby increasing its scope and influence. BRICS emphasizes the cooperation of developing countries outside the traditional Western systems and the reform of international financial institutions.
BRICS basically includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Now Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, United Arab Emirates and other new member countries have also joined it. This platform is considered important for emerging economies and countries of the Global South. Issues such as multilateral cooperation, economic partnership, de-dollarization, energy security and climate change are expected to be discussed at the conference.
This visit of Putin will be an opportunity to further strengthen the strong bilateral relations between India and Russia. The two countries have long had close cooperation in the fields of defence, energy and trade. This will be one of Putin’s recent visits to India, marking continued high-level contacts between the two countries.