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Berlin is seeking New Delhi's support for the tough Western stance towards Russia over its war in Ukraine, but Narendra Modi still refrains from criticising Moscow.
The longer Ukraine's army fends off the invading Russians, the more it absorbs the advantages of Western weaponry and training - exactly the transformation President Vladimir Putin wanted to prevent by invading in the first place. As Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters its third month, FRANCE 24 is joined by François Heisbourg, Senior Advisor at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. "Here we are no longer in the post-Cold War era in which we had a lot of asymmetric warfare. This is actually beyond asymmetry," explains Mr. Heisbourg. And he finds it quite stunning that, two months in, Russia still does not have complete air supremacy over Ukraine. Mr. Heisbourg never expected the Russians to perform so poorly, as the Ukrainian air force was, "on paper, quite inferior to the Russian air force." And so he currently shares US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's viewpoint that Ukraine can still win the war, with the right equipment and the right support. "Unless something unexpected happens today or tomorrow, the Russians will not be in a fit state to continue their offensive," asserts Mr. Heisbourg.
Since the beginning of the week, the French and Indian navies have been conducting military exercises off the western Indian coastline as part of the Indian Ocean Symposium. These military drills illustrate India's balancing act between its allies at a time when New Delhi has been called out by the United States for not condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is on a two-day visit to New Delhi, which is expected to further upset its Western allies. Explanations from our correspondents, Alban Alvarez, Navodita Kumari and Thomas Denis.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Wednesday in Algeria, a Moscow ally and major gas producer that has faced calls to boost exports to Europe after prices soared following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Indian government and large segments of the Indian public, have firmly been on Putin’s side, as FRANCE 24's Navodita Kumari reports.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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