Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 1 met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tianjin, part of his trip to China to attend the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit and engage in other activities there.

State President Luong Cuong has extended a message of condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin over a tragic plane crash involving Angara Airlines in Russia’s Far Eastern Amur region.