New Delhi: India withdrew on Saturday from a multilateral army training, Kavkaz-2020, which will be held in southern Russia next month because it did not need to conduct training with Chinese infantrymen amid tensions in the genuine line (LAC), ThePrint learned.
The resolution taken after a diplomatic and high-level army meeting said resources within the defense and security status quo.
The training will be held in Astrakhan Province in southern Russia from 15 to 27 September, and other participants come with Pakistan, among other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an intergovernmental organization comprising 8 Asian countries.
India had planned to send two hundred army troops, adding 180 infantry battalion soldiers and IAF and Navy observers to participate in the exercise, also known as the Caucasus-20.
Sources within the defense and security status quo said Covid’s pandemic and the prospect of achieving army training with Chinese and Pakistani infantrymen as a component of multilateral work demonstrated “the turning point” in India’s resolve to withdraw.
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Kavkaz is part of a four-year training cycle through the Russian army, and the call is in the region where those trainings take place. Previous editions of the training took place in 2012 and 2016.
A total of 13,000 infantrymen will participate in the exercise. China will most likely engage with a large number of surface naval fighters, defense resources said.
The international relations of the Indian army with Russia, through a series of joint army exercises, began in 2003 with the first edition of Ex Indra, a bilateral naval exercise.
India and China are concerned about a tense stalemate across the western laC sector in Ladakh, which has been ongoing since May. Recent satellite photographs revealed Friday recommend that China is climbing two air defense positions along the eastern sector of LAC that will cover the 2017 Doklam area, as well as Naku La at Sikkim, the site of a border crash in May.
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