Russian specialists continue providing maintenance for the Indian Navy’s aircraft carrier Vikramaditya, despite the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s largest defense news portal, Indian Defence Industries, reported on Thursday.

A group of Russian technical specialists, which is assisting India in providing maintenance for the aircraft carrier Vikramaditya, has not left the country amid the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the delays with the carrier’s acceptance for service, the Vikramaditya offers considerable possibilities for India’s Navy and allows the country to keep its supremacy in the Indian Ocean, the news portal said in its article.

Russia has become the sole country that can offer India an aircraft carrier and without its participation the Indian Navy would have been unable to get a warship of this class. As the news portal said, no other country has been able to offer India such major armaments as S-400 air defense missile systems and stealth frigates.