The Al Nahyan plane landed on Thursday afternoon, and a military musical band performed a ceremony in front of the plane. The president was received on the aircraft steps by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin, First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, the head of the Russian Liberal Democratic Party Leonid Slutsky, and the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev.
Al Nahyan has visited Russia several times. Since 2022, as the President of the UAE, he has visited the country four times: in October 2022, in June 2023, and twice in October 2024. He was in Moscow on an official visit on October 20 and 21, and a few days later, he visited Kazan to participate in the BRICS summit.
