Oil-hungry India, the world's third-largest crude importer after China and the US, has been snapping discounted Russian oil after many Western countries shunned it as a means of punishing Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.

It is not our business, the German Ambassador said Wednesday on India buying discounted oil from Russia, weeks after the US said it was "comfortable" with New Delhi's approach on Russian oil purchase. "I have made it clear time and again that India buying oil from Russia is none of our business basically that's something that the Indian government decides and if you get it at a very very low price, you know I cannot blame India for buying it," said Philipp Ackermann, German Ambassador to India.

It makes business sense for India to buy cheap oil, then the choice must be left to them. 

Oil-hungry India, the world's third-largest crude importer after China and the US, has been snapping discounted Russian oil after many Western countries shunned it as a means of punishing Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.

It is not our business, the German Ambassador said Wednesday on India buying discounted oil from Russia, weeks after the US said it was "comfortable" with New Delhi's approach on Russian oil purchase. "I have made it clear time and again that India buying oil from Russia is none of our business basically that's something that the Indian government decides and if you get it at a very very low price, you know I cannot blame India for buying it," said Philipp Ackermann, German Ambassador to India.

It makes business sense for India to buy cheap oil, then the choice must be left to them.