{"id":16319,"date":"2025-12-09T04:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=16319"},"modified":"2025-12-09T04:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:19:33","slug":"russia-india-will-keep-buying-oil-from-wherever-it-is-cheapest-and-most-profitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/16319\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia: India will keep buying oil from wherever it is cheapest and most profitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0The Kremlin stated on Monday that India will continue to purchase oil from any source that offers the most commercially advantageous terms, underscoring New Delhi\u2019s pragmatic approach to energy security.<\/p>\n<p>The remark came days after President Vladimir Putin personally assured Prime Minister Narendra Modi of uninterrupted Russian crude and fuel supplies during a phone call on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia will buy oil where it is profitable for India \u2013 that is the position India has always taken,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Putin and Modi also agreed to deepen bilateral trade, investment and defence cooperation, according to statements from both sides.<\/p>\n<p>India, the world\u2019s third-largest oil importer, has emerged as one of the biggest buyers of Russian seaborne crude since Western nations imposed sanctions on Moscow over Ukraine in 2022. Russian oil, often sold at a discount, now accounts for roughly 40% of India\u2019s total crude imports.<\/p>\n<p>Indian refiners, led by state-run and private giants such as Indian Oil Corp and Reliance Industries, have consistently defended the purchases on commercial grounds, rejecting Western calls to curb imports from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has repeatedly described the India-Russia energy partnership as mutually beneficial and immune to external political pressure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2025-12-09T04:19:33+00:00\"> 9 December 2025<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kremlin stated on Monday that India will continue to purchase oil from any source that offers the most commercially advantageous terms, underscoring New Delhi\u2019s pragmatic approach to energy security.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,46,36,19,16,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-16319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-international","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16319"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=16319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}