India has rejected a media report which claimed “artillery shells sold by Indian arms makers have been diverted by European customers to Ukraine and New Delhi has not intervened to stop the trade despite protests from Moscow”. Earlier today, the news agency Reuters published the report citing eleven Indian and European government and defence industry officials, as well as its analysis of commercially available customs data.
Responding to the report, the Ministry of External Affairs dubbed it “speculative and misleading”. “It implies violations by India, where none exist and, hence, is inaccurate and mischievous,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in a statement released on Thursday.
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