\nMOSCOW: Russia has started supplying India with S-400 air defence missile systems, Russian news agencies reported citing Dmitry Shugayev, the head of the Russian military cooperation agency.\n\n\n\nThe supplies put India at risk of sanctions from the United States under a 2017 U.S. law aimed at deterring countries from buying Russian military hardware. \n\n\n\n“The first supplies have already been started,” Interfax cited Shugayev as saying on Sunday at an aerospace trade show in Dubai.\n\n\n\nHe said that the first unit of an S-400 systems will arrive in India by the end of this year.\n\n\n\nThe $5.5 billion deal for five long-range surface-to-air missile systems, which India says it needs to counter a threat from China, was signed in 2018.