The friendship between India and Russia is years old. But these days, calling diplomacy or current needs of Russia’s staunch enemies, India’s proximity to America has increased considerably than before. America wants to remove Russia from India’s defense market and replace itself. At the same time, Russia has made such a big offer to India that he has given such a big offer to India and gave the entire 16 thousand crore orders to Russia. But the question is not only about the cheap deal but also a sure friendship. When Russia can clash with half the world for India, India cannot do so much for Russia.
Russia India’s largest oil supplier
Reuters, citing initial ship-tracking, stated that refiners are giving priority to concessional cargo, so Russia has become India’s top napha supplier in FY 2025. Buyers hope that this trend will continue for another year. Russia has been India’s top crude oil supplier for the last two years. According to Ship-tracking data by Olax and Capler, India imported about 3 million tonnes of naphas between April 2024 and March 2025, with more than 50% of Russia. This indicates a significant increase from the contribution of 14% -16% of the previous year.
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Is this deal after all
India imports more than 15 thousand crores every year. Nephastha is a very important petrochemical product, which is used in defense industry, powerplant, textile and plastic. India earlier bought 40 percent from the United Arab Emirates, 30 percent from Saudi Arabia, 10 percent from Iraq, 10-15 percent of Nephathha from Russia. but nowThe figures of 2024-25 were revealed.Russia has become the largest supplier in India. In such a situation, questions are arising that why India left Arab countries and made this deal with Russia. Actually, Russia gave India a huge discount of 14–15 per dollar. Due to which the Indian refinery canceled its order and ran towards Russia.
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Why Arab countries got upset by this
The UAE and Saudi Arabia were not ready to give any discount. He thought that India has no other option. But India overturned the entire game with Russia. Russia has been imposed strict sanctions on Russia from the US and European countries due to the Ukraine War. In such a situation, India supported Russia and gave a new market of Nephtha crude oil and other energy products.
