India has bought 34 million barrels of discounted Russian oil since the Ukraine invasion: data

India has entered 34 million barrels of blinked Russian oil painting since Moscow raided Ukraine on Feb 24, according to Refinitiv Eikon data, further trebling the value of total significance from Russia, including other products, compared with the same period of 2021.

The volumes of India’s seaborne oil painting significances from Russia count CPC Blend oil painting, which is also exported via Russia’s Black Sea harborage but substantially supplied by Kazakhstan’s accessories of western countries as conveyance volumes.

India’s oil painting significance from Russia has been rising since February, as Asia’s third-largest frugality and the world’s third-biggest oil painting importer, turned to deeply blinked Russian oil painting, substantially Urals crude, to cut its significances bill.

The country entered further than 24m barrels of Russian crude this month, over from7.2 m barrels in April and about 3m in March, and is set to admit about 28m barrels in June, according to Refinitiv Eikon oil paint flows.

Surging energy significance helped push India’s total goods significance from Russia between Feb 24 and May 26 to$6.4 billion, compared with$1.99 bn in the same period last time, according to government numbers seen by Reuters.

India’s exports to Russia, still, fell nearly 50 percent to$377.07 m over that period, as its government is yet to set up a formal payment medium.

As the West responded to the irruption with a shower of warrants, India has come under fire for its uninterrupted purchases of Russian energy.

New Delhi has brushed off the review, saying those significances made only a bit of the country’s overall requirements and has said it’ll keep buying “ cheap ” Russian oil paintings, arguing an unforeseen stop would drive up costs for its consumers.

Russian and Indian energy companies have also been agitating for term force agreements and possible accessions of stakes in Russian oil painting and gas systems.