‘Indian companies will buy oil from wherever they get best deal’: India’s envoy to Russia

Indian companies will continue to buy oil from wherever they get the best deal, said India’s ambassador to Russia Vinay Kumar in an interview with Russia’s state-run TASS news agency. He called the United States’ decision to impose additional 25 per cent tariffs on India as penalty for buying oil from Russia “unfair, unreasonable and unjustified”.

Kumar said that India’s objective is to ensure energy security for the country’s 1.4 billion people. He added that after the steep 50 per cent tariffs imposed by the US President Donald Trump, the Indian government will continue to take measures to protect its “national interest”.