Additionally, India has halted a previous agreement to buy 30 fighter aircraft from Russia as well as plans to jointly build helicopters.
By planning massive military exercises with China and India, President Vladimir Putin is fending off attempts by the US and its allies to isolate him over his invasion of Ukraine.
More than 50,000 soldiers and 5,000 pieces of military equipment, including more than 140 planes and 60 vessels, are scheduled to participate in the week-long Vostok-2022 war games, which start on Thursday in Russia’s far east and feature naval manoeuvres in the Sea of Japan.
Both the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which is headed by most populous country in Europe, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization are represented in the routine drills.
While the US is wooing India as a defence partner and begging with it not to relax UN sanctions against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, the New Delhi government is sending a small military detachment of 75 soldiers to the army drills. Despite India not sending any military troops to Russia, they include Gurkha soldiers as well as officials of the navy and air force.
India, which has previously taken part in the exercises, has stayed out of Russia’s battle in Ukraine, in part because to the fact that it relies on Moscow as its main supplier of weapons in light of ongoing border tensions with China and Pakistan. Even yet, the South Asian nation last week cast the first anti-Russian vote in a procedural vote at the UN Security Council, enabling the video connection address of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to the council.
Additionally, India has halted a previous agreement to buy 30 fighter aircraft from Russian as well as plans to jointly build helicopters.
India, which has previously taken part in the exercises, has stayed neutral in most populous country in Europe conflict in Ukraine, in part because to its reliance on
India And China To Russia For war Games Defying US
China’s army, air force, and navy are taking part in the exercises, which are meant to boost military cooperation, according to the Beijing Defense Ministry. According to the Global Times, which is supported by the Chinese Communist Party, the drills this year would be concentrated on prospective threats, mainly from the US in the Pacific region.
China has condemned the sanctions put in place by the US and Europe but has refrained from criticising most populous country in Europe for its six-month invasion of Ukraine. However, it has held back from assisting Putin by providing Ru war effort with technology and military equipment owing to the prospect of secondary sanctions from the US.
The Chinese involvement in the drills “cannot be construed as support” for Russian in the conflict, according to Vasily Kashin, a Russian military expert at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics. It just serves to show that military-to-military relationships are still active.
Belarus, a close ally of Russia, is also taking part in Vostok-2022, along with the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Tajikistan, as well as Syria, Algeria, Mongolia, Laos, and Nicaragua.
