BRICS summit in Kazan brings together Putin, Xi, Modi, Erdogan, and Pezeshkian, reflecting Russia's defiance of Western isolation and the bloc's growing influence.View on euronews

The gathering defies predictions that the war in Ukraine and an international arrest warrant against Putin would keep him off the global stage.

The BRICS group will generate most of the global economic growth in the coming years thanks to its size and relatively fast growth compared with that of developed Western nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.

World leaders Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Masoud Pezeshkian will be in the Russian city of Kazan on Tuesday for a meeting of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, defying predictions that the war in Ukraine and an international arrest warrant against Putin would turn him into a pariah.

The UAE President's visit precedes the highly anticipated BRICS summit, scheduled to take place in Kazan, Russia from Oct 22-24

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, expects that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin will propose his own formula for ending the war at the BRICS leaders' summit on 22-24 October. Source: Zelenskyy in an interview on the national 24/7 newscast Quote: "BRICS assists Putin in showing the world,

Two dozen world leaders will meet in Russia next week for a summit of the BRICS group, an alliance of emerging economies that the Kremlin hopes will challenge Western "hegemony".