New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- A specific timeframe has not been finalised for Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposed visit to India for an annual summit, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Putin's visit figured during National Security Adviser Ajit Doval's meetings with senior Russian officials in Moscow on Thursday. Russia's state-run media inaccurately cited Doval as saying that Putin would travel to India in late August, the people said on condition of anonymity. "The NSA, during his visit to Moscow, said that the dates of President Putin's visit to India are being worked out," one of the people cited above said. "The time of end-August being reported is incorrect," the person said. No specific date or time was indicated by Doval during his engagements in Moscow, the people said. Putin is expected to travel to India this year for the annual India-Russia Summit as Prime Minister Narendra Modi had gone to Moscow for the summit in 2024. Though the two sides have been involved in initial preparations for the visit, they have so far not finalised any specific timeframe for the trip, the people said. Doval is in Moscow for meetings with senior Russian officials to strengthen security and economic ties. The trip was scheduled earlier but has gained in importance following US President Donald Trump's decision to impose an additional punitive tariff of 25% on India for purchasing Russian oil. External affairs minister S Jaishankar is also expected to travel to Russia in the third week of August for a scheduled meeting of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation (IRIGC-TEC), the main mechanism for overseeing trade and economic cooperation. Meanwhile, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Thursday met Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu, who said that the two countries are linked by "strong, time-tested ties of friendship." Doval arrived in Moscow on Wednesday to hold talks on bilateral energy and defence ties and to prepare the ground for Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to India later this year. It is important for Moscow and New Delhi to determine the timing of new full-scale negotiations between President Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Shoigu said at the meeting with Doval. "A multi-level trust-based political dialogue is effectively functioning between our countries now. It is based on regular contacts between President Putin and Prime Minister Modi. It is important to determine the dates for the next full-scale negotiations between our leaders," he was quoted as saying by the state-run TASS news agency. Russia and India are linked by "strong, time-tested ties of friendship," Shoigu said, adding that for Moscow the most important thing is to strengthen the special privileged strategic partnership with India....