India has avoided taking sides over the Ukraine crisis, while China has also refused to criticise Russia for its role. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MOSCOW - Russia is holding major military exercises involving China and India as President Vladimir Putin pushes back against attempts by the US and its allies to isolate him overMore than 50,000 troops and 5,000 pieces of military equipment, including more than 140 aircraft and 60 warships, are due to take part in the week-long Vostok-2022 war games that start on Thursday in Russia's far east, including naval drills in the Sea of Japan.
Even as the US is wooing India as a defence partner and urging it not to undermine international sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, the New Delhi government is sending a small 75-strong military detachment to the army drills. They include Gurkha troops and representatives from the navy and air force, though India isn't dispatching naval or air assets to Russia.
Still, the south Asian nation voted against Russia on the issue for the first time in a procedural vote last week at the United Nations Security Council that allowed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to address the body via video link. The Defence Ministry in Beijing said China's army, air and naval forces are taking part in the drills, which aim to strengthen military coordination. The Chinese Communist Party-backed Global Times said the exercises this year will focus on possible threats, especially from the US in the Pacific region.for its six-month-long invasion of Ukraine and condemned US and European sanctions against Moscow.
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