Russia supplied half of India’s oil imports in July 2024
Moscow’s share of India’s crude purchases reached 50.83% as volumes rose 62.4% from a year earlier
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Russia supplied half of India’s oil imports in July 2024
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What this story says
- Russian crude made up 50.83% of India’s total oil imports in July 2024, the highest share on record.
- India’s imports of Russian oil rose 62.4% compared with July 2023, reaching 2.47 million barrels per day.
- The U.S. Senate passed a bill that would impose 100% tariffs on imports from countries buying Russian crude, but the House has not yet approved it.
- India’s next-largest suppliers, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, shipped 617,000 and 586,000 barrels per day respectively in July.
Who covered it
Percentages are shares of the 6 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 1 of the 7 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .
Trust
74/100
Craft
95/100
Hype
15/100
7 sources · methodology
Thin on the left so far
None of the 6 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.
This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.
In July 2024, Russian crude accounted for 50.83% of India’s total oil imports. The volume reached 2.47 million barrels per day, a 62.4% increase from the same month in 2023. The figure was reported by Reuters, citing unnamed trade sources, and corroborated by data from the analytics firm Kpler.
The July total was slightly lower than June’s peak of 2.6 million barrels per day. Despite the month-on-month decline, Russia remained India’s largest oil supplier. The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia supplied 617,000 and 586,000 barrels per day respectively in July, according to Kpler.
The U.S. Senate passed a bill in July that would impose 100% tariffs on imports from countries buying Russian crude. The House of Representatives has not yet approved the measure. If enacted, the tariffs could affect India’s oil purchases, though alternative suppliers are limited amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
What the coverage left out
No left-rated outlet ran the story. None of the right-rated digests mentioned the U.S. Senate’s passage of the bill imposing 100% tariffs on imports from countries buying Russian crude.
Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 3 times, most recently on 14 Aug 2026, 16:45, and will add the sides that appear.
How each side covered it
Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.
Left
0 rated outlets
No outlet rated left has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.
Centre
2 rated outlets
- The centre-rated report from Oil Price led on the record share of Russian oil in India’s import mix. It reported the 50.83% figure and the 62.4% year-on-year increase, attributing both to Reuters. The report also noted the June peak of 2.6 million barrels per day and the potential impact of U.S. tariffs, including the Senate’s passage of the bill and the House’s pending decision.
- Oil Price quoted Kpler’s estimate of 2.45 million barrels per day for Russian flows to India in July, while also citing the 2.47 million barrels per day figure from trade sources. The report named the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia as India’s next-largest suppliers, with volumes of 617,000 and 586,000 barrels per day respectively.
Right
4 rated outlets
- All three right-rated digests carried the 50.83% share and the 62.4% year-on-year increase. Korrespondent.net and Forbes Georgia’s digest both reported the 2.47 million barrels per day figure. Latestly’s digest did not mention the volume but focused on the potential economic consequences of reducing Russian oil purchases, quoting economist Santosh Mehrotra’s estimate that a 50% cut could raise India’s annual oil bill by USD 5-10 billion and push inflation higher.
- The Hindu Business Line’s digest reported the 62.4% surge and the 2.47 million barrels per day figure, describing it as an all-time high. None of the right-rated digests mentioned the U.S. Senate bill or the potential 100% tariffs.
Read it at the source
7 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.
Left
0No outlet in this group ran the story.
Centre
2Right
4- India's Oil Imports Surge: Russian Crude Dominates at Record 50 Percent (opens Unknown in a new tab)
Unknown
- India Has Updated the Record on Russian Oil Procurement (opens Korrespondent.net in a new tab)
Korrespondent.net — is Korrespondent.net biased? Our profile of this outlet
- 50% Cut in Russian Oil Purchases Could Raise India's Oil Bill by USD 5-10 Bn, Push Inflation: Economist (opens Latestly in a new tab)
- India’s Russian oil imports hit all-time high in July (opens The Hindu Business Line in a new tab)
The Hindu Business Line — is The Hindu Business Line biased? Our profile of this outlet
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1Questions about this coverage
- How did the left and right cover Russia supplied half of India’s oil imports in July 2024?
- Of the 6 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 0% are rated left, 33% are rated centre, 67% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 7. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
- Is Russia supplied half of India’s oil imports in July 2024 left or right?
- Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 6 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
- Is the coverage of Russia supplied half of India’s oil imports in July 2024 biased?
- Russia supplied half of India’s oil imports in July 2024 is one event reported by 7 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
- Which side is not reporting Russia supplied half of India’s oil imports in July 2024?
- When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
- Which outlets covered Russia supplied half of India’s oil imports in July 2024?
- 7 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
- How much Russian oil did India import in July 2024?
- India imported 2.47 million barrels per day of Russian crude in July 2024, which accounted for 50.83% of its total oil imports. This was a 62.4% increase from the same month in 2023, according to trade data reported by Reuters.
- What could happen if India reduces its Russian oil purchases?
- Economist Santosh Mehrotra estimated that a 50% cut in Russian oil purchases could raise India’s annual oil import bill by USD 5-10 billion and push inflation higher. The estimate was reported by Latestly amid a U.S. proposal to impose tariffs on countries buying Russian crude.
- Has the U.S. approved tariffs on countries buying Russian oil?
- The U.S. Senate passed a bill in July 2024 that would impose 100% tariffs on imports from countries buying Russian crude. The House of Representatives has not yet approved the measure, so it is not yet law.
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