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The report claims that Ukraine has been using Indian ammunition for the last one year.
Ukraine is using Indian ammunition against Russia. According to news agency Reuters, India had sold these weapons to European countries. Now Ukraine is using them.
The report states that despite Russia’s protest, India has not tried to stop it. It quotes 3 unnamed Indian officials and says that Russia has complained about this to India on at least 2 occasions.
According to the report, Italy and Czech Republic buy grenades in large quantities from India. These ammunitions have been reaching Ukraine from these two countries for the past one year.
Russia complained to India According to the report, a meeting was held between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar in July in which this issue was raised.
The news agency reported that the defense ministries of Russia and India did not respond to questions related to this. However, in January, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in a press conference that India had not sent or sold artillery shells to Ukraine.
Two Indian government sources and two defence ministry sources told Reuters that India has produced only a small quantity of the ammunition being used by Ukraine.
One official estimated that this was not even 1% of the ammunition Kiev might have purchased since the war began.
Government company Yantra India manufactured ammunition However, it is not yet known whether European countries have donated or sold this ammunition to Ukraine. It is being told that these weapons have been made by a government company called Yantra India. The headquarters of this company is in Nagpur. This company was established in October 2021.
According to Indian arms export rules, sending even a small quantity of arms to another country is a violation of the rules. The arms can only be used by the buyer. If the arms are sent to another country, the company can stop the delivery of the arms.
Expert said- sending weapons is beneficial for India South Asia security expert Walter Ladwig of King’s College London said that sending a small amount of Indian ammunition to Ukraine was beneficial for India. This will give India an opportunity to show Western countries that it is not with Russia in the Russia-Ukraine war and that Russia has no influence on India’s decisions.