Russian oil

"I am still wiping the egg off my face because I was one person in the parliamentary debate who actually criticized the Indian position at the time back in February 2022," Tharoor said.

The United States has not asked India to cut Russian oil imports, an American treasury official said on Thursday.

While India's purchase of crude oil comes is far from hurting any economy and instead has stabilised the global economy in a volatile geopolitical environment, the United State's historical funding to Pakistan has come at a huge cost to India, its neighbourhood and human rights at large.

Indiam refiners saved over USD 7 billion in foreign exchange by increasing crude oil imports from Russia

Indian state-run refiner, BPCL in talks with Russia's Rosneft to buy discounted crude pegged with Dubai benchmark.

S Jaishankar said once Russian oil is refined in a third country, it is no longer considered as Russian oil as per EU Council Regulation 833/2014

".. as a balancing act you begin to support Ukraine more heavily in a more extensive way because you understand that you enjoy the benefit of buying cheap Russian oil because someone in Ukraine is dying," Ukrainian FM Dmytro Kuleba said.