The top political leaders of Russia and India are now concerned about a big problem - how to prevent the threat of economic sanctions from the United States aimed at actual and potential buyers of Russian weapons. Of particular interest to India is the fate of agreements and contracts signed with Russia in the military-technical sphere, allowing it to buy modern weapons.

According to IA "Tasnim", the issue of economic sanctions against the countries-buyers of Russian military equipment and weapons is one of the most discussed in the international media. For example, the Moscow edition of Kommersant and the Indian Times Delhi published materials about a joint project between India and Russia aimed at preventing US sanctions that threaten Russian-Indian agreements and can seriously harm the interests of buyers of Russian weapons. The greatest damage will be caused by multibillion-dollar bilateral contracts for the supply of defense technologies - their total amount is about $ 12 billion.

At the end of January 2018, Indian Ambassador to Russia Pankaj Saran, in an interview with Russian media, admitted that his country was ready to fulfill all the agreements and contracts concluded with Russia, to expand and strengthen ties in the field of military-technical international cooperation and bring them to a new level. In addition, the diplomat stressed that the sanctions of the United States and the European Union can not affect the strengthening of Russian-Indian cooperation in this area.

However, a month after the ambassador's speech, the Indian press began to write that the official Delhi is deeply concerned about the latest US actions, which began the process of tightening sanctions - in April a new "black list" appeared where the Rosoboronexport corporation got. It is she who is the main partner of the Indian side in the sphere of military-technical cooperation with Russia.

On the other hand, the official representatives of the Russian company suggested that Rosoboronexport was not accidentally included in the sanctions list. It is quite possible that the company has become the main goal of the US, which are looking for a pretext for ousting Russia from the world arms market. At the same time, other countries and their enterprises that are cooperating with Russian companies from the sanctions list are also under attack. They are also threatened with payment of huge fines and various financial penalties.

The source of the Times of Delhi newspaper recently reported that these threats have already begun to be carried out. Immediately several Indian banks that have assets in the US are afraid of being fined by financial institutions, so they decided to temporarily suspend operations on transactions concluded with Russian partners.

In addition, there is a risk that US sanctions will affect the major defense contracts concluded with the Russian side - among them, in particular, there is an agreement on the supply of anti-aircraft anti-aircraft missile systems C-400 worth 5,5 billion dollars to India, 4 billion dollars, an agreement on the joint assembly of multipurpose helicopters КА-226, costing 1 billion dollars, as well as renting a Russian nuclear submarine.