The recent exemption granted to India by the U.S. House of Representatives from sanctions under Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAASTA) for its S-400 deal is convincing other international customers apprehensive of sanctions to buy Russian equipment, a senior Russian defence official acknowledged, while stating that the delivery of S-400 systems to India is underway as per contract. In this regard, he claimed that the “special military operation in Ukraine has significantly increased the interest of foreign partners in Russian weapons”.
“In general, I want to say that we consider the Western sanctions against Russian-Indian military-technical cooperation as unfair competition and pressure on the sovereignty of both Russia and India,” Dmitry Shugaev, Director of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Commission, said in response to questions from visiting journalists at the Army-2022 expo here.
“In my opinion, it is not the removal or imposition of sanctions by the U.S. against a particular country that should have an impact on the purchase of Russian weapons, but its quality and effectiveness,” Mr. Shugaev stated.
