While India abstained during the voting of a draft resolution condemning Moscow for annexing Ukrainian territory, it also has not reacted to the latest US unilateral sanctions on an Indian firm and a national for trading with Iran.
The strong comments by Jaishankar came amid persistent efforts by Europe to convince India to take a tough position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine with the argument that Delhi may face a similar challenge from China.
Wendy Sherman said India has made comments on Bucha killing which indicates that the US needs to keep working and helping to support India to understand what is in their national security interest.
There are two likely scenarios: one is obviously that there will be enough 'yes' votes for the resolution to be approved without any controversy. The second one is messier.