Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, addressing the Ambassadors Round Table in preparation for Aero India 2025, highlighted India's growing aerospace and defence industry, emphasising government reforms aimed at boosting self-reliance through initiatives like Atmanirbhar Bharat. Roman Babushkin,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday held a meeting with Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and discussed the country's defence needs in the conflict against Russia.
The meeting was held on the sidelines of the 21st session of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Military and Military Technical Cooperation (IRIGC-M&MTC).
The Defence Minister called for further collaboration to consolidate and deepen the defence aspects of the countries' and emphasised on further deepening the interaction between both nations despite "geopolitical challenges and great pressure."
US has imposed a a limit on how Ukraine can use American-provided weapons to strike inside Russia. President Biden said that while the US has permitted Ukraine to strike beyond the Russian border near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, he has resisted Ukrainian demands to reach Russian target
Amid the growing close ties between India and Russia, New Delhi has asked Moscow to expedite and advance the deliveries of the S-400 air defence missile system deliveries.
"Order of St Andrew the Apostle is not given to everybody. There are very select heads of state who get it. I think the act by the Russian President to bestow this honour on PM Narendra Modi is very significant," Katoch told ANI.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated serious concerns of the US about China providing components that are powering Russia's war against Ukraine.
In an interview with a leading German economic daily, Handelsblatt during his visit to the Munich Security Conference in Germany, EAM highlighted the infrastructural imbalance of supply chains in the world and said that the world's economic model is unstable and unfair.
Russia signed a contract to supply Igla-S hand-held anti-aircraft missiles to India and has allowed the production of the Igla under license, Reuters reported citing Russian news agency TASS.
As part of their emerging military alliance, the officials said, a high-level Iranian delegation flew to Russia in early January to visit the planned site for the factory and hammer out details to get the project up-and-running, according to WSJ.