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No pressure from US to cut Russian oil imports, Indian oil minister says

Global Published 27 October 2026, 11:39 · archived 27 Oct 2026

GOA: India has faced no pressure from ​the US to reduce its Russian crude ‌imports, oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday at an industry event. “I never felt anything,” Puri said when ​asked if there has been pressure to ​cut Russian oil imports. Puri said Middle East oil ⁠supplies have been rising as the region is ​able to ship out more cargoes. He said India ​was getting 0.2% of its oil imports from Russia before the Ukraine war, while imports have surged since the war ​started due to discounts on Russian oil. India’s imports ​of Middle Eastern crude oil surged in September, return...

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