During his 3-day visit to Russia, Jaishankar said he reviewed the progress on broad-ranging cooperation on space, nuclear, energy and defence sectors with counterpart Sergey Lavrov.
Russian Foreign Ministry said two transport planes will deliver over 22 tonnes of necessary equipment including 20 oxygen production units, 75 ventilators and 150 medical monitors.
Envoy Nikolay Kudashev also said that both Russia and India do not recognise bilateral sanctions as they are 'illegal tools' of 'unlawful and unfair' competition and pressure.
The Russian Direct Investment Fund has said that India has become the 60th country to approve the use of the vaccine Sputnik V, which has an efficacy of 91.6 per cent.
Former American defence secretary Carter, however, cautioned that US must be aware of India's past, including policies of non-alignment and its historic military ties with Russia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who was on a hurricane tour to India, said the two countries are ‘going to deepen military and technical cooperation’.
On his two-day visit to Pakistan, Lavrov will hold important talks with the country's top leadership and the Army chief on bilateral ties as well as on the situation in Afghanistan.
Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla visited Russia in February and discussed wide-ranging Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership between the two countries.
Shringla's remarks came during an interview in which he was asked whether India would bow to the US pressure and give up the S-400 air defence missile systems deal with Russia.
Israel's response to Iran's retaliatory attack was relatively small and also downplayed by Tehran. But there are factors that could jeopardise this perceived reprieve.
The 125 APAs include 86 Unilateral APAs (UAPAs) and 39 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). The total number of APAs since the start of the APA programme has risen to 641, with 506 UAPAs and 135 BAPAs.
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