Putin spent a second day in New Delhi for the BRICS summit, moving from the business forum to the leaders’ session. State outlets carried his video address on the end of the unipolar system, the need to expand the UN Security Council and claims the bloc was “not against anyone,” followed by adoption of the New Delhi Declaration, presented as quoted by world press.
Overnight exchanges continued the drone war of previous days. Russian outlets reported Ukrainian strikes on Togliatti, Taganrog and Belgorod, with one dead and 14 injured in Belgorod, while describing a massive Russian strike on Ukrainian metallurgy and ports and fighting around Dobropillia and Kharkiv.
Lavrov said Russia would not halt operations during any talks with Kyiv, a line Peskov paired with rejection of a Putin-Zelensky meeting at the G20. The Arkhangelsk road crash that killed 13 dominated early domestic coverage.