Russian President Vladimir Putin is welcomed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi upon arrival on the Palam Air Base in New Delhi, India December 4, 2025.
Grigory Sysoev | Through Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin has underlined Moscow’s willingness to offer “uninterrupted shipments of gasoline” to India, because the U.S. pressures New Delhi to surrender importing their oil.
Putin made the provide throughout a joint tackle with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, a part of his first go to to the nation since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which triggered widespread sanctions.
The sanctions compelled Russia to hunt new prospects for its exports. India has turn out to be the second largest purchaser of Russian crude oil, after China, with a report Finland-based Centre for Analysis on Power and Clear Air exhibiting India purchased 38% of Russian crude exports in October.
In October, President Donald Trump sanctioned two of Russia’s largest oil firms, Rosneft and Lukoil. This adopted a tariff of 25% on India for getting Russian oil in August. However India has to stroll a tightrope as a result of it has shut ties to the U.S. whereas additionally counting on Russia for gasoline and entry to navy {hardware}.
Putin questioned U.S. strain on India in an interview to an Indian tv channel on Thursday.
The United States nonetheless buys nuclear gasoline from Russia for its personal nuclear energy vegetation, Putin stated within the interview, including: “If the U.S. has the proper to purchase our gasoline, why should not India have the identical privilege?”
Whereas Trump has acknowledged that India has in the reduction of its Russian oil imports, consultants advised CNBC that this can be a short lived pattern.
Other than crude oil, Russia’s Rosatom can be delivering reactors and reportedly gasoline for India’s Kudankulam nuclear energy plant in Tamil Nadu, which has a mixed capability of 6000MW.
India and Russia have an vitality partnership, the Russian president stated, including that Moscow had been is dependable provider of “oil, gasoline, coal and all the pieces that’s required for the event of India’s vitality”.
Final month, India introduced a “historic deal” with Washington, wherein Indian state-owned oil firms signed a one-year deal to import round 2.2 million tonnes every year of liquefied petroleum gasoline from the U.S.