Ensuring energy security for 1.4 billion people India's top priority: MEA after U.S. claim on Russian oil purchase

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External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. File

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. File | Photo Credit: PTI

India connected Thursday (February 5, 2026) asserted that ensuring the vigor information for its 1.4 cardinal radical is the halfway of its attack connected sourcing petroleum products.

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal's comments astatine a media briefing came successful effect to Washington's assertion that India has agreed to halt buying Russian oil.

"Insofar arsenic India's vigor sourcing is concerned, the authorities has stated publically connected respective occasions that ensuring the vigor information of 1.4 cardinal Indians is the ultimate precedence of the government," Mr. Jaiswal said.

"Diversifying our vigor sourcing successful keeping with nonsubjective marketplace conditions and evolving planetary dynamics is astatine the halfway of our strategy to guarantee this," it said.

"All of India's actions are taken and volition beryllium taken with this successful mind," helium said.

Published - February 05, 2026 02:54 p.m. IST

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