India is not pressured by the US to reduce imports of Russian crude oil, Indian oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri said at an industry event on Tuesday. When asked if the US had pressured India to cut Russian oil imports, Puri replied, “I have never felt any pressure.” Puri said that as the Middle East region is able to transport more oil cargoes abroad, oil supply from the region has been increasing. He said that before the war in Ukraine, India imported only 0.2% of its total oil imports from Russia. However, after the war broke out, the amount of oil imported by India from Russia increased dramatically because Russian oil was sold at discounted prices. According to ship tracking data, India's crude oil imports from the Middle East increased sharply in September, returning to pre-war levels.

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