The meeting between Putin and Doval came nearly three weeks after Modi travelled to the Ukrainian capital kyiv and held talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Doval is in St Petersburg to attend a conclave of national security advisers of the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) countries.
The group’s summit will be held in the Russian city of Kazan from October 22-24 and Modi is scheduled to attend.
“Vladimir Putin noted the successful development of the Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership between India and Russia and stressed the importance of security issues in bilateral relations, thanking the Indian side for maintaining dialogue in this area,” a Russian statement said on the Putin-Doval meeting.
According to the statement, the Russian president proposed holding a bilateral meeting with Modi on October 22 on the sidelines of the BRICS summit to “summarize the results of joint work” on the implementation of agreements reached during the Indian leader’s visit to Moscow and outline prospects for the near future.
Modi visited Russia in July.
“We are waiting for our good friend Modi and we send him our best wishes,” Putin was quoted as saying at the meeting with Doval, according to Russian media.
On Wednesday, the NSA held wide-ranging talks with its Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, focusing on important issues of “mutual interest.”
“Both sides reviewed progress in bilateral cooperation and discussed important issues of mutual interest,” the Indian embassy in Russia said of the talks between Doval and Shoigu.
Modi’s talks with Zelensky in kyiv on August 23 are known to have figured in discussions between the two non-state actors.
In his talks with Zelenskyy, Modi said both Ukraine and Russia should sit together without wasting any time to end the ongoing war and that India was ready to play an “active role” in restoring peace in the region.
The Prime Minister said India had been on the side of peace since the beginning of the conflict and would even like to personally contribute to a peaceful resolution of the crisis.
Modi’s nearly nine-hour visit to Ukraine, the first by an Indian prime minister since independence in 1991, came six weeks after he held summit talks with Putin in Moscow.
In recent days, there have been calls for India’s possible role in pushing forward peace talks between Russia and Ukraine as New Delhi has good relations with both nations.
On Saturday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, after her talks with Zelenskyy, said that India and China can play a role in finding a solution to the long-running conflict.
Putin, speaking at a panel discussion at the Eastern Economic Forum in the Russian city of Vladivostok last Thursday, named India, Brazil and China as possible intermediaries that could play a role in resolving the conflict.
“First of all, it concerns the People’s Republic of China, Brazil and India. I am in touch with my partners and I have no doubt that the leaders of these countries (with which we maintain relations of mutual trust) will be really interested and will offer a helping hand,” he said.
India has maintained that the conflict in Ukraine should be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy.
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