India's G20 coordinator Amitabh Kant said on the 27th that India will continue to purchase Russian oil, as much as it can, and is studying the use of local currency settlement, TASS New Delhi reported.

　　According to the report, Kant talked about how India has not stopped buying Russian oil after the West imposed anti-Russian sanctions. We can still see that Russian oil companies are investing in India," Kant said. We continue to buy as much oil as we can from Russia and will continue to do so. We will build friendship and relationship with Russia."

　　He said, "India's relationship with Russia has not changed."

　　The Indian G20 coordinator also mentioned that Moscow and New Delhi were "looking at options so that the two countries can trade in local currency". Kinder said, "We are looking at these possibilities with Russia."

　　India, the world's third largest importer of crude oil after China and the US, is reportedly actively buying Russian oil, and its share of India's oil imports, which was just 0.2 per cent at the beginning of 2022, was more than 20 per cent by the end of the year.

　　New Delhi does not support the West imposing a cap on the price of Russian oil, the report said. India's Oil and Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had earlier said that oil had no national stamp and that India would continue to pursue a policy of independence to ensure its own energy security.