Russian President Vladimir Putin and Myanmar's leader and military junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will hold talks in the Kremlin on Tuesday after which they will sign documents and made a statement to the media, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
Min Aung Hlaing, 68, who rarely travels abroad, was greeted earlier on Tuesday by Sergei Shoigu, one of President Vladimir Putin's top security officials.
Shoigu, the secretary of Russia's Security Council and former Defence Minister, was shown embracing Hlaing ahead of his meetings planned with Putin and the Defence Ministry, Izvestia reported.
"We have been very actively developing relations with Myanmar. This is a very important partner of ours in East Asia," Peskov told reporters.
Myanmar, a country of 55 million people, has been in turmoil since February 2021 when the military ousted the administration of Nobel laureate and NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The junta plans this year to hold an election, which critics have derided as a sham to keep the generals in power through proxies.
Along with China, Russia is a supporter of Myanmar's military and both powers vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning alleged human rights abuses in the country.
