Putin’s visit: India is eager for Russian weapons despite US sanctions risk

 MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin will visit New Delhi on Monday as billions of dollars of Russian weaponry stream into India that would regularly draw in US sanctions. Anxious to bring India into its endeavors to contain China, the US might turn away this time.

Putin is making his first unfamiliar outing in almost a half year for chats with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as India takes conveyance of Russia’s S-400 progressed rocket guard framework that is essential for a $5 billion weapons bargain. A comparative buy by NATO partner Turkey incited the US to prohibit Ankara from its high level F-35 warrior stream program.