NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Vladimir Putin on his re-election as the President of the Russian Federation.

In his message to the Russian president, PM Modi said that he was looking forward to further strengthen strategic partnership ties between India and Russia.

The Indian prime minister took to his official social media account and wrote, "Warm congratulations to H.E. Mr. Vladimir Putin on his re-election as the President of the Russian Federation."

"Look forward to working together to further strengthen the time-tested Special & Privileged Strategic Partnership between India and Russia in the years to come. @KremlinRussia," PM Modi said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed a landslide victory in the country's presidential elections extending his rule till 2030. 

Vladimir Putin won 87.28% of the votes in the presidential election based on the results of processing 100% of the protocols, according to the CEC data.

Putin's closest opponent, the Communist Party's Nikolay Kharitonov secured the second spot with 4.31% of the votes polled whereas New People Party candidate Vladislav Davankov stood third with 3.85% votes and Leonid Slutsky (LDPR) got 3.20%.

The CEC will announce the official election results at a special meeting on Thursday.

The voter turnout across Russia topped 74 per cent, the country's Central Election Commission said. 

In a speech at his campaign headquarters on Sunday evening, Putin attempted to denounce the Western criticism of the elections and told his supporters that the West's reaction was on "expected" lines. 

"What did you want, for them to applaud us? They’re fighting with us in an armed conflict … their goal is to contain our development. Of course, they are ready to say anything," he said. Putin gained 94.12 per cent of the votes in Luhansk and over 95 per cent in the Donetsk region, sometimes collectively referred to as the Donbas region that Russia now claims as its own in the wake of the war in Ukraine. 

The Russian state media reported that the results from the Republics of Tyva, Khakassia, and Yakutia, the regions of Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Khabarovsk, and from Chukotka Autonomous Region also show Putin leading with roughly 90 per cent of the vote.