Amid US warnings, India-Russia vow to enhance defence cooperation, additional procurement

Despite US pressure against defence procurement from Moscow, India and Russia on Tuesday decided to enhance defence cooperation not only in procurement, but also explored the possibility of "additional" production of Russian military equipment in India.

Despite US pressure against defence procurement from Moscow, India and Russia on Tuesday decided to enhance defence cooperation not only in procurement, but also explored the possibility of "additional" production of Russian military equipment in India. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was on a working visit to New Delhi where he held bilateral talks with his counterpart External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. "We discussed prospective and additional manufacturing of Russian military equipment in India within the concept 'Make in India'. So here, I didn't see any changes from our Indian partners and friends," Lavrov said during the press interaction after talks with Jaishankar.