According to experts, India should not take tension due to the growing friendship between Pakistan and Russia. He said that Russia’s trade with India is 80 times more than that of Pakistan. While India’s economy is collapsing, Pakistan is on the verge of default. The $5.2 billion S-400 deal between India and Russia is equal to the trade between Pakistan and Russia in the last 10 years. Similarly, India has signed huge defense deals with Pakistan like BrahMos missiles, warships, nuclear submarines, tanks, AK-203 rifles.
Oil trade between India and Russia at record high
According to defense experts, Russia has benefited billions of dollars from this deal with India. India may be diversifying its arms purchases from Russia, but oil trade between New Delhi and Moscow has reached an all-time high. In May 2023, India bought 2 million barrels of oil per day from Russia. At present, Russia may have become the third largest supplier of arms to Pakistan, but Putin needs to connect with India much more.
He said that Russia-China friendship is more a matter of tension for India than Russia-Pakistan relations. Russia will increase its relationship with Pakistan very carefully so that India does not get angry with it. At the same time, the friendship between PM Modi and Putin has reached a very different level. In the year 2018 in Sochi, the eyes of the whole world were fixed on the body language of Putin and Modi. Not only this, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also often visits India. However, after the Ukraine war, Russia is now moving towards Chinese weapons due to the sanctions of western countries. According to experts, Russia would not want it to become a junior partner of China, so it would maintain friendship with India. India has not yet criticized Russia’s role in the Ukraine war.