Modi may have publicly rebuked Putin over the war in Ukraine, but the longstanding friendship between India and Russia isn’t going away, analysts said.
"India is in a unique position where it needs Russia in the short term to manage China," said Harsh V. Pant, vice president of studies and foreign policy at Observer Research Foundation, a Delhi-based think tank.
China and India have been locked in a two-year-long border dispute in the Himalayas, although troops from both sides have recently started disengaging from the western side. But both still hadThe future of China and India's relationship is going to be a difficult one, said Raymond Vickery, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"Even while India seeks greater indigenization of its defense capabilities, absent a stunning and financially exorbitant overhaul of its force structure, it will continue to depend on Russian arms, munitions, and subcomponents for decades," said Lalwani.
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