No pressure from US to cut Russian oil imports, says Indian oil minister

India has faced no pressure from ​the US to reduce its Russian crude ‌imports , oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday at an industry event. “I never felt anything,” Puri said when ​asked if there has been pressure to ​cut Russian oil imports. Puri said Middle East oil ⁠supplies have been rising as the region is ​able to ship out more cargoes. He said India ​was getting 0.2 per cent of its oil imports from Russia before the Ukraine war , while imports have surged since the war ​started due to discounts on Russian oil . India’s imports ​of Middle Eastern crude oil surged in September,…