Russia will not disclose data on its crude oil exports to India and will keep the information confidential due to the presence of “too many ill-wishers”, the Kremlin said on Friday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the remarks hours after Scott Bessent, US Treasury Secretary, said that Washington had issued a temporary 30-day waiver allowing Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil amid the West Asia conflict, reported PTI.
“No, of course, we are not going to provide any quantitative data for obvious reasons. That’s the first thing. There are too many ill-wishers,” said Peskov.
He was responding to a question about Indian media reports suggesting that Moscow could deliver about 22 million barrels of crude in a week.
Earlier on Thursday, Russian state television showed a map indicating several tankers moving from the Arabian Sea towards the Bay of Bengal in the direction of refineries on India’s east coast.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Moscow was ready to increase crude supplies to India and China, which he said were affected by US-Israeli strikes on Iran and disruptions to oil transit through the Strait of Hormuz following retaliatory action by Tehran.
