On January 22, 2019 Deputy Minister of Defense Colonel General Alexander Fomin held a meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation Doctor Dayan Jayatilleka.

Parties discussed pressing matters of bilateral military and military-technical cooperation, and prospects for its further development.
Below is the link to the Media Release on the website of Russian Ministry of Defence
https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12213453@egNews