India’s imports of Russian crude remain “robust”, tracking at approximately 1.8 million barrels per day at present, provisionally up by 250 thousand barrels per day from September, maritime data and analytics provider Kpler mentioned in a blogpost on Tuesday (October 21, 2025).

The blogpost added that Russian barrels remained the “largest single source of crude for India” accounting for about 34% of the overall share and entailed “compelling discounts” that are “too significant for refiners to ignore”.

Thus, it sought to infer that U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks initially made on October 15 suggesting India would reduce Russian crude imports, are “likely pressure tactics linked to trade negotiations rather than a reflection of an imminent policy change”. India’s Russian oil purc

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