White House official says India ‘basically tied with China in purchasing Russian oil’ as Delhi defies sanctions threat

Washington Post underlines West’s ‘frustrations’ over failure to ‘cripple’ Russia’s economy & The Economist notes ‘shift’ in American foreign policy vis-à-vis India & Pakistan.

India imports around two million barrels of crude oil per day from Russia, making it the second largest purchaser of Russian oil after China, according to the New York Times. Russia’s share of Indian oil imports has increased from less than 1% before the war to more than a third.