Yuri Ushakov, foreign policy aide to Putin, stated that 36 countries have confirmed their participation, with over 20 planning to send their heads of state, the Associated Press reported. The 2024 summit coincides with the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank, the two Bretton-Woods institutions that BRICS positions itself as an alternative to.

According to the "Daily Mail" website, the BRICS summit, held from October 22 to 24, is the largest diplomatic event in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine more than two and a half years ago. Moscow attempts to demonstrate that Western efforts to isolate and punish it have been ineffective.