US ready to help India reduce dependence on Russian oil 

Biden Administration's key architect for Russian sanctions, Indian-American Daleep Singh, had not issued any warning to India on oil imports from Russia during his recent trip to New Delhi and had a rather constructive dialogue, the White House said on Friday, Report informs, citing NDTV.

The White House made the assertion while also noting that India imports more energy from the United States than Russia.

"I wouldn't characterise it as a warning," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at her daily news briefing in reply to a question on Daleep Singh's recent India visit.

"When Daleep was in India, he delivered this warning to India to not raise purchases of Russian oil. And we were wondering if perhaps sanctions along similar lines are being considered for other nations, asking them to keep purchases of Russian oil only limited to previous levels and perhaps not," the White House Press Secretary was asked.

"He (Singh) went and had a constructive conversation and made clear that while it's the decision of each individual country, including India, to determine whether they're going to import Russian oil, it is only 1 to 2 per cent of their imports, About 10 per cent of their imports is from the United States," Ms. Psaki said.

"He conveyed, of course, they should abide by sanctions which are not related to that decision. But also we would be here to help them diversify and move towards even reducing further beyond the one to two per cent," Ms. Psaki said in response.