🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin's greetings to participants and guests of the 2026 International Youth Festival (September 13, 2026)

💬 Dear Friends! I am delighted to welcome participants and guests of the International Youth Festival.

This year, you have gathered in the capital of the Urals, Yekaterinburg – the city where Europe and Asia meet and where history literally lives in every stone.

For centuries, the Urals have produced ideas that changed our country for the better. First plants, Russia’s first industrial revolution, and hundreds of modern scientific breakthroughs. Where else but here, one of the centres of Russia’s industrial, cultural and intellectual legacy, would young leaders from different countries discuss how our life is changing with the arrival of new technology and what kind of world we want in the future?

🌏🤝 In the Russian language, the word “mir” means friendship, peace and accord; but at the same time, it means the world, the planet: humanity, all the countries and peoples on Earth.

That explains so much about the character of Russia’s multi-ethnic nation, our decisions and actions.

If we are friends, our friendship is strong and enduring. If we are neighbours, we seek fairness and respect for one another.

We want every person to remain human and for their fate be determined by things other than nationality, a wallet packed with money, status or background. We strongly believe that every nation is free to choose its path independently and is entitled to equal access to medications, food, water, energy and education opportunities, and to the use of the latest technology that must be available to all humanity.

It is our aspiration, our cause and our dream. If you share these aspirations, let’s change the world together.

We will welcome those who decide to join our projects in Russia. We are equally happy to see you build our shared new, open and, hopefully, just world in your own home countries.

I have no doubt that you, the younger generation, will succeed. It is your time.

🇷🇺 Follow your dreams with Russia.

I wish you the best of health, good luck and all the best.

⚡️ On September 12, the XVIII BRICS Summit adopted the New Delhi Declaration “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”.

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1. We, the Leaders of #BRICS countries, met in New Delhi, India, from September 12 to 13, 2026 for the XVIII BRICS Summit held under the theme: “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”.

2. We reaffirm our commitment to the BRICS spirit of mutual respect and understanding, sovereign equality, solidarity, democracy, openness, inclusiveness, collaboration and consensus.

Building on two decades of BRICS, we further commit ourselves to strengthening cooperation in the expanded BRICS under the three pillars of political and security, economic and financial, cultural and people-to-people cooperation, and to enhancing our strategic partnership for the benefit of our people through the promotion of peace, a more representative, fairer international order, a reinvigorated and reformed multilateral system, sustainable development and inclusive growth.

3. We recognise the valuable contribution of Partner countries to BRICS cooperation. We underscore our strong belief that advancing the BRICS partnership with Emerging Markets and Developing Countries (#EMDCs) will further contribute to strengthening the spirit of solidarity and international cooperation for the benefit of all.

We reaffirm our commitment to fostering inclusive, mutually beneficial and development-oriented partnership with Partner countries. We encourage their increasing participation in BRICS engagements and practical cooperation in areas of shared interest.

4. We commend India for hosting the Outreach/BRICS Plus Dialogue segment of the XVIII BRICS Summit, which injects new impetus to strengthen international cooperation and solidarity.

7. On the landmark occasion of the 2️⃣0️⃣th anniversary of BRICS, we reiterate our commitment to reforming and improving global governance by promoting a more just, equitable, agile, effective, efficient, responsive, representative, legitimate, democratic and accountable international and multilateral system in the spirit of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits.

Bearing in mind the need to adapt the current architecture of international relations to better reflect the contemporary realities, we reiterate our commitment to strengthening multilateralism and multipolarity and to upholding international law, including the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interconnectedness in a balanced and inclusive manner, as its indispensable cornerstone, and the central role of the #UN in the international system.

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139. We commend India’s BRICS Chairship in 2026 and express our gratitude to the government and people of India for holding the XVIII BRICS Summit in the city of New Delhi.

140. We extend full support to China for its BRICS Chairship in 2027 and the holding of the XIX BRICS Summit in China.

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🇷🇺 On September 13, President of Russia Vladimir Putin concluded his three-day working visit to India to attend the XVIII BRICS Summit.

Key events of the Summit:

🤝 Visit to the Innoprom.India exhibition
🎙 Vladimir Putin’s address at the BRICS Business Forum
🎙 Vladimir Putin’s address at the XVIII BRICS Summit
🎙 Vladimir Putin’s address at the Outreach/BRICS Plus Session of the XVIII BRICS Summit

✍️ On September 12, The XVIII BRICS Summit adopted the New Delhi Declaration “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”:

Bearing in mind the need to adapt the current architecture of international relations to better reflect the contemporary realities, we reiterate our commitment to strengthening multilateralism and multipolarity and to upholding international law, including the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interconnectedness in a balanced and inclusive manner, as its indispensable cornerstone, and the central role of the #UN in the international system.

📃 Full text of the Declaration

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On the sidelines of the BRICS Summit, President of Russia Vladimir Putin also held a series of bilateral meetings with:

🇮🇳 Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
🇿🇦 President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa
🇪🇬 President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
🇲🇾 Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim
🇪🇹 Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed
🇦🇪 Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
🤝 President of the New Development Bank Dilma Rousseff

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🎙 During the visit, Vladimir Putin also answered questions from Russian journalists, addressing key issues on the international agenda.

#BRICS2026 #RussiaBRICS

☢️ Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant (#ZNPP):

Since the evening of September 12, Ukrainian forces have been attacking the training centre at the ZNPP (managed by Rosatom). More than 10 UAV attacks have been recorded so far.

According to preliminary information, there have been no casualties. The extent of the damage is being assessed.

❗️ The risk of further attacks remains high.

The training centre provides instruction and practical training for plant personnel, including drills for abnormal conditions and emergencies. It forms part of the plant’s safety system: specialists must regularly maintain their skills and be ready to act precisely and in coordination in any situation.

Strikes on a facility used to train nuclear plant personnel therefore target both infrastructure and a component of the nuclear safety system.

The situation at the plant remains under control. The plant’s operational safety remains assured. Radiation levels are within normal limits.

Further information on the consequences of the attacks will be provided as the facility is inspected, once the threat of further attacks has subsided.