India empathizes with Ukraine, and is sending humanitarian assistance. But it buys 85% of its military hardware from Russia. Russia has supported it on many occ

India empathizes with Ukraine, and is sending humanitarian assistance. But it buys 85% of its military hardware from Russia. Russia has supported it on many occasions in the past, whereas the USA once sent the USS Enterprise into Indian waters to stop India going to war with the then (East) Pakistan, where genocide was being committed. The USA was then a close ally of Pakistan. India is slowly warming to the USA and is in the quad and other security-oriented multilateral relationships but there is very well-founded distrust of the US and a general positive feeling about Russia, its most steadfast and reliable ally ever since India became independent and pursued a policy of non-alignment during the cold war.