India holds maritime exercise with Russia, land exercise with US

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New Delhi: Amid the ongoing conflict with Ukraine, two Russian Navy destroyers from its Pacific Fleet have reached the Bay of Bengal where they are undergoing a joint exercise with the Indian Navy...

The purpose of the exercise is to comprehensively develop and strengthen naval cooperation between Russia and India,the Russian Ministry of Defence announced Tuesday...

In November second week,Russia had undertaken its first-ever joint naval exercise with Myanmar, Myanmar-Russia Maritime Security Exercise (MARUMEX), deepening security cooperation involving both ships and aircraft...

At the time, the US criticised the exercise with White House Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre saying the US has concerns about any country exercising with Russia while Russia wages an unprovoked, brutal war against Ukraine...

At the moment, the Indian Army is engaged in a joint exercise, Vajra Prahar, at Umroi in Meghalaya with the US Army.The 14th edition of the Indo-US joint special forces, which commenced 21 November, in which the American contingent is represented by the 1st Special Forces Group (SFG) of US Special Force..