Vladimir Putin
Geopolitics
Modi tells Putin dialogue is the only path to end Ukraine war
Narendra Modi met Vladimir Putin on 31 August on the margins of the 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and told the Russian president that dialogue and diplomacy was the way forward in resolving conflicts.
Geopolitics
Putin signs decree to seize private assets hit by drone strikes
Russia's government can now take temporary control of privately owned infrastructure whose operators fail to protect it from Ukrainian drone strikes, under a decree Vladimir Putin signed this week.