Bloomberg wrote that Putin is challenging the West by inviting the Chinese and Indian armies to the Vostok 2022 exercises now taking place in eastern Russia.
The newspaper wrote that India did not take sides in the Ukrainian crisis, despite all the pressure exerted by the West, and, according to Bloomberg, this is due to the close partnership between Moscow and New Delhi.
The reporters continued: “When the United States of America invited India as a defense partner and urged it not to undermine international sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, the New Delhi government sent a military detachment to participate in Russian military exercises.”
The Vostok-2022 exercises will be held at 7 training grounds of the Eastern Military District from September 1 to 7 under the leadership of the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces of the Eastern Military District, and more than 50 thousand military personnel and more than 5 thousand pieces of weapons and equipment will take part in the maneuvers, in including 140 aircraft, 60 warships, boats and support ships. The Russian Armed Forces will be represented in military command and control bodies, air defense forces, units of the Airborne Forces, long-range transport aviation and military transport aviation, where joint actions of operational control groups, military units and observers from the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Shanghai Organization will be practiced. cooperation and other partner countries: Azerbaijan, Algeria, Armenia, Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Laos, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Syria and Tajikistan.
Source: RIA Novosti