India has dismissed a threat by the European Union’s chief diplomat to target oil product exports to the bloc that have been refined from Russian oil.
Foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said oils refined in India were not treated as Russian when questioned about comments by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
He pointed to the EU’s own regulations that allowed for Russian crude that has been substantially processed at refineries outside of the bloc to be imported without breaching sanctions.
