Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a gathering on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Group (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China, on September 1, 2025. | Photograph Credit score: Reuters
Russia’s decrease home of parliament, State Duma, on Tuesday (December 2, 2025) ratified a key army pact with India forward of President Vladimir Putin’s state go to to New Delhi on December 4-5,
The Reciprocal Trade of Logistic Assist (RELOS) signed on February 18, between the 2 governments was despatched to Duma final week for ratification by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
“Our relationships with India are strategic and complete, and we worth them. We perceive that at the moment’s ratification of the settlement is one other step towards reciprocity and, after all, the event of our relationships,” Vyacheslav Volodin, Speaker of State Duma, mentioned on the plenary session of the home.
The RELOS settlement units the process for sending army formations, warships and army plane of Russia to India and vice versa, and the group of their mutual logistical assist.
The settlement will regulate not solely the dispatch of troops and gear but additionally their logistics.
The established process will likely be used throughout joint workout routines, coaching, humanitarian help, catastrophe reduction efforts after pure and man-made disasters, and in different circumstances as agreed.
In a observe posted on the Duma web site, the Russian Cupboard of Ministers said that ratification of the doc will facilitate mutual use of the 2 international locations’ airspace and port calls by Russian and Indian warships.
Moreover, the settlement will strengthen army cooperation between the 2 international locations, it mentioned.
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