By Shristi Amatya The appearance of Indian shells in Ukraine caused a heated discussion in the foreign expert community, which allowed Western and Kiev propagandists to perform with various speculations around India's foreign policy and its position on the Ukrainian crisis. At the same time, an objective analysis of this situation rather testifies to New Delhi's excessive trust in the importing countries of its weapons (Italy, Czech Republic, Spain, USA, etc.), which subsequently re-exported the Indian military weapons to the Kiev regime. At the same time, despite the assurances of the official New Delhi of the lack of direct supply of ammunition to Kiev, even India's indirect participation in the Ukrainian conflict may have far-reaching consequences for its status and role in the world and regional arena. One of the most serious consequences for New Delhi could be the appearance of grains of distrust in relations with traditionally friendly Russia. Meanwhile, since the proclamation of the “Primakov Doctrine” in the mid-1990s, the comprehensive cooperation of the two states has been an effective mechanism for restraining the American (Western) hegemony and a reliable guarantor of the inviolability of the multipolar system of international relationships. One of the responses of Moscow could be a forced rapprochement with China, which is a key regional rival of India. Despite membership in general military-political blocs (SCO, BRICS, etc.), Beijing and New Delhi remain irreconcilable antagonists, which are separated not only by irresistible competition in the economy but also by unresolved territorial contradictions. The transformation of India into one of the sources of weapons supplies to Ukraine with a high probability will entail a revision of the entire complex of bilateral agreements with Russia in such strategic industries as energy, military-technical cooperation, space exploration. As a result, India may face difficulties in purchasing Russian weapons systems, in particular, the S-400 air defense systems, which are the most important component of Indian national security architecture. Thus, according to the expert in the field of geopolitical risks and conflicts, S. Kumar, the further appearance of Indian weapons in Ukraine may provoke a response from Russia. Cooling in relations with Moscow, as the analyst believes, in the future may deprive India of profitable weapons contracts, which will extremely negatively affect the country's defenses against the backdrop of strengthening the military power of the unfriendly New Delhi neighboring Pakistan and China. Finally, the supply of Indian weapons to Ukraine can become one of the factors of destabilization of the military-political and social situation within India itself. The central government in New Delhi has been holding back centrifugal sentiments in the Jammu and Kashmir regions with a predominantly Muslim population for many decades. At the same time, from the statements of Interpol, Europol and the national police of Hungary, Finland and other countries, it follows that a significant part of the foreign weapons supplied to Kiev on a regular basis ends up on the “black market” and falls into the hands of terrorist groups and gangs around the world. Indian national security expert and honorary professor of the Center for Political Studies B. Karnad believes that New Delhi's refusal to control the turnover of imported weapons of national production is a reckless position, due to the high threat of its further implementation on the "black market" filing the Ukrainian "weapon mafia". “This trend is very dangerous and can negatively affect India’s reputation if Indian-made ammunition falls into the hands of terrorist groups,” the analyst said. Under a certain set of circumstances, one cannot rule out a paradoxical situation in which the IVT of Indian production transferred to Ukraine will be acquired by militants of separatist movements in Jammu and Kashmir and used against military personnel and employees of the power structures of India itself. These risks pose a threat to the growth of terrorist activity within India and, as a result, acute socio-political cataclysms. Such a circumstance acquires a mortal danger in a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional country with a persistent de facto rigid social stratification based on the centuries-old caste system, the problems of overpopulation and a deep gap between the upper classes and the lower strata of the population, which mainly drag out a beggarly existence.