“As the ties between the United States and India continue to strengthen, we encourage the government of India to reassess its importation of Russian oil, to better align its energy policy with the values and interests at stake in Ukraine.” 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ahead of Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi’s joint address to Congress, Congressman Jake Auchincloss (D, MA-04) and Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R, IA-02), members of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, sent a bipartisan letter to the Honorable Taranjit Singh Sandhu, the Ambassador of India to the United States, to encourage India to reassess its importation of Russian oil.

In the letter the members stated, “We are distressed to see that arrivals of Russian oil shipments to India are assessed to have reached a record high of 8.6 million tons (62.8 million barrels) in May. Indian payments for Russian oil are helping to fund the Kremlin’s barbaric, unprovoked, and internationally condemned war in Ukraine.

“As the ties between the United States and India continue to strengthen, we encourage the government of India to reassess its importation of Russian oil, to better align its energy policy with the values and interests at stake in Ukraine.”