With India continuing to import oil from Russia at discounted rates amid the war in Ukraine, the US envoy in New Delhi said Friday that while the goal of Washington’s policy is to reduce revenues to Russia to fund its war, it is a “sovereign decision” of countries to make.
In her first media interaction since she arrived last month, Elizabeth Jones, the charge d’affaires of the US embassy in New Delhi, said, “On the oil cap, the goal of the policy is to reduce revenues to Russia that could be used to enhance its capacities for continuing to wage war in Ukraine. That’s the goal.
