MOSCOW – Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov on Sunday said thatMoscow will deliver S-400 air defence missile systems to India within 18-19months.
“The advance payment has been received and everything will be delivered instrict accordance with the schedule, within about 18-19 months,” Borisovwas quoted as saying by ANI.
It is to be noted that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visitedMoscow in August to meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and holddiscussions over ways to further advance bilateral cooperation.
India had signed a USD 5.43-billion deal with Russia during the 19thIndia-Russia Annual Bilateral Summit in New Delhi on October 5, 2019 forthe purchase of five S-400 systems.
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In July, 2019, a top US Navy commander had said that India acquiring theS-400 missile system from Russia is a “bit of a problem”. “We’re still indialogue with them about that S-400. India is acquiring the S-400. It’s aRussian air defence system. That’s a bit of a problem.
Will you continue to dialogue? I, I think they intend to do that. I’mtrying to clarify for them that the tactical and technical case that’s soimportant here,” US Indo-Pacific Command chief Admiral Philip Scot Davidsonhad said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.
