Is Russia moving away from India and moving closer to Pakistan?

New Delhi:

In this way, Russia has always been an old and trusted friend of India and has renewed its friendship when the time comes. But these days his attitude has changed a bit. We saw this recently at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. In fact, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a bilateral meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif here. Meanwhile, Putin said that Russia can provide wheat and gas to Pakistan. Because the situation in Pakistan is worse than before and now the floods have made the situation worse there. In such a situation, there is no harm in helping Pakistan with wheat on the basis of humanity, but the issue of gas supply definitely makes India uncomfortable. Because in conversation with the PM of Pakistan, Putin talked about the development of a new infrastructure to supply gas to Pakistan, so this situation becomes more serious for India.

No mention of TAPI pipeline

In fact, Russia has not mentioned the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline here, but a separate pipeline to Pakistan via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Putin said that this gas line already exists in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. This thing is making it easy to live in blood, in fact it is not so much. So we need to understand what Russia is doing. According to those who understand foreign affairs, Russia is trying to manipulate both India and Pakistan. Like India is doing to strike a balance between America and Russia. Now we need to understand why Russia is doing this. According to sources, Prime Minister Modi spoke to Putin in the SCO Forum to get out of the war in Ukraine. PM Modi said that this era is not war.

What does Russia want after all?

However, Putin had agreed with PM Modi at that time and said that India’s concerns should be kept in mind. But this statement of India was considered somewhere in favor of America and Ukraine and against Russia. In such a situation, it may also happen that Russia has made India realize its mistake by showing closeness to Pakistan. Because the world knows that Pakistan is the vein of India. It may be that Russia has tried to show that if India wants to work with America, then Russia also has options. Although these are mere speculations as of now, India will have to find both the reasons and solutions for its proximity to Russia or Pakistan.