<h1>India, Russia eye mobility pact, trade deals, and FTA talks while navigating Ukraine diplomacy and trade imbalance</h1> Indian and Russian authorities plan to conclude multiple agreements during an upcoming two-day summit in New Delhi, including a mobility pact to regulate recruitment and movement of Indian workers to Russia, and arrangements in trade, healthcare, academia, agriculture, culture, and fertilisers. Discussions will address a proposed free trade agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union and efforts to rebalance a significant trade deficit created by India's high imports of Russian goods, including crude oil and fertilisers. Indian officials reiterated support for a diplomatic resolution of the Ukraine conflict and criticised a joint newspaper article by European envoys that condemned the Russian head of state, calling such public commentary 'unusual' and contrary to acceptable diplomatic practice.