India Takes Pragmatic View on Relationship with Russia Amid Ukraine Conflict

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India sees maintaining a strong relationship with Russia as essential, with a deep security and strategic history going back over half a century. Taking a pragmatic view, India believes the benefits of the relationship outweigh grandstanding on Russia and Ukraine. India is taking advantage of the Russia-Ukraine war and buying up cut-price Russian resources. The expected trend is for Russia to turn more towards Asia, and India sees the Ukraine war as a strategic opportunity to get closer to Russia.

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