Russia speaks of unease over Indo-US ties

Indicating unease over India’s growing closeness with the US, Russia on Thursday said it does not “feel comfortable” at being put on the same plane as New Delhi’s “newly-acquired partners” who had earlier imposed sanctions on this country.

Russian ambassador Alexander M. Kadakin reminded how his country had always stood by India as the closest friend and underlined that the two countries are in “greater need of each other” in the “strikingly new world”.
Maintaining that “our relations are special after all”, he said at an event here: “We sincerely regard India as our closest and best friend.”

He talked about what Russia has done for India, saying, “Hardly will you name another country which would have twice supplied nuclear fuel for Tarapur against the backdrop of rigid sanctions, would have leased nuclear submarines or offered unique defence technologies for BrahMos, world’s best cruise missiles, or the fifth-generation aircraft.”

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