India mulls over oil deal with Russia, US says India not violating sanctions

 

let's move on now the United States has said that India would not be violating its sanctions against Russia by purchasing discounted India mulls over oil deal with Russia, US says India not violating sanctions Russian oil this comes after Russia offered India to buy crude oil in other commodities at a discounted price all this a week after the US banned all Russian energy Imports our message to and to any country continues to be that obviously abide by the sanctions but that we we have put in place and recommended i don't believe this would be violating that the u.s recognizes that India is heavily dependent on Russia for arms ammunition missiles and fighter jets in recent weeks u.s officials have said that they would like India to distance itself from Russia as much as possible India is the world's third largest oil consumer and importer it imports eighty percent of its oil out of which two to three percent comes from Russia .Russia's deputy prime minister Alexander novak spoke with India's petroleum minister Hardi Puri last week and Moscow released a statement which said that Russia is keen to increase its oil and petroleum product exports to India it also mentioned that russian oil and petroleum product exports to India have approached one billion dollars when the united nations held a vote to condemn Russian aggression in Ukraine India abstained from the war i joined others in thanking under secretary general martin Griffith and UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell for their briefings the worsening situation in Ukraine and ensuing humanitarian crisis Deserve.