China biggest purchaser of Russian oil: EAM on US tariffs

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday asserted that China and the European Union were the biggest purchasers of Russian oil and LNG, not India, and that the logic of the United States singling out the country for secondary tariffs is perplexing.

- NIKHIL VYAS

In a joint press interaction with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow following their talks, Mr Jaishankar stressed that India is not the biggest purchaser of Russian oil. He further said India also buys oil from the US, and that amount has increased. "We are not the biggest purchasers of Russian oil; that is China. We are not the biggest purchasers of LNG; that is the European Union."