This was an interesting article from Time mag. on March 6th 2022.
Why the U.S. Doesn't Mind India's Notable Silence on Ukraine
Just as India can’t afford to lose Russia, the U.S. can’t afford to lose India. They need each other, to face off against the ultimate challenger to America’s global dominance, which is China. Russia neither has the ambition nor the capacity to mount such a challenge. India’s condemnation of Russia will make little material difference to isolating Moscow. But its value in containing China is another matter. That is why India, along with Australia and Japan, is part of the U.S.-led, four-nation
Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, aimed as a regional counterweight to China.
Russia may have taken center stage in American threat perception for the moment—in his State of the Union Speech, President Joe
Biden mentioned Russia 18 times and China just twice—but this crisis is part of a much bigger contest that has China at its heart. A contest that makes India indispensable for the U.S. when the focus returns to China.
https://time.com/6154734/india-ukraine/