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Russia has raised with New Delhi the issue of India-made ammunition reaching Ukraine through Europe in the third quarter of last year...
This follows reports circulating among Russian and Ukrainian sources that Ukraine possibly received Indian 155mm artillery shells...
People in the know said the security establishment is probing the possibility of India-made artillery landing up in a third country via arms dealers or in collusion with a partner country..
A Western country, in all probability, procured the 155mm artillery shells from India and has since transported it to Ukraine via a European state which is a NATO member, the sources alleged...
The development is interesting as over the last one-and-a-half years it was Pakistan that has been at the forefront of arms supply to Ukraine at the behest of the Western powers, either via Poland or Germany...
