India cancelled orders of Russian jets, weapons: US official at Senate hearing
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu said the US Secretary of State had been “in the frontline” of a “pitched battle” to get India on the same page as the US on the Ukraine issue.
Underlining that it would be difficult for any country to continue buying military hardware from Russia after US sanctions in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday that in the “last few” weeks, “what we’ve seen from India…is the cancellation of MiG-29 orders, Russian helicopter orders and anti-tank weapon orders.”
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Bασικά, ο μόνος λόγος που δεν συμμετέχει και η Ινδία στις κυρώσεις, είναι ότι αν το κάνει θα χάσει την τεχνική υποστήριξη για την συντριπτική πλειοψηφία των υπάρχοντων αμυντικών της συστημάτων που είναι ρωσικής προέλευσης. Προφανώς και δεν είναι διατεθιμένη να πετάξει την άμυνά της στα σκουπίδια.
