‘Do As We Say, Not As We Do’? EU Lectures India Over Russian Oil, But Trade Numbers Reveal A Story It Won’t Say Out Loud | World News

New Delhi: Europe’s senior leaders speak with strong voices against Russia, but behind the closed doors and shipping docks, the figures tell another story. In 2024, the total trade of the European Union with Moscow reached 70.3 billion dollars. Despite the EU’s leading global Russia’s economic isolation, it was almost equal to $ 72 billion in India.

For months, India faced pressure from Western capitals. It was used as one of Moscow’s post -war basic trade partners. However, the EU’s own participation with Russia deepens. Not only fuel, but also chemicals, metals, food and machines.

Last year, India’s trade with Russia was largely based on energy. Only fuel posts reached $ 59.5 billion and made up more than 80% of the total trade volume.

Meanwhile, it has reduced European oil imports (only $ 24.2 billion in 2024), but maintains high -volume transactions in other sectors.

The chemical trade between the EU and Russia was $ 17.6 billion. It is more than six times the $ 3.1 billion in India. In metals, the EU exceeded $ 0.9 billion in India, the EU $ 6.7 billion. The block also recorded 5 billion dollars of food imports from Russia and 4.4 billion dollars of machinery and electronics.

The import tells only half of the story.

In 2024, the EU exported 34 billion dollars of goods to Russia. Europe sent 14.6 billion dollars of chemical, $ 5 billion food and $ 3.7 billion machinery and electronics.

The patterns are mixed even among the critics in Atlantic.

The United States imported Russian goods of $ 3.8 billion, with more than half fertilizer and chemicals in 2024, in 2024. The United States, which is the country it supports from Ukraine, military and diplomatic, imported only $ 1.23 billion. It was less than $ 1.48 billion in India from the country where the war diaped. Ukraine paid $ 1.69 billion for US exports and asked questions about balance and benefit during a conflict.

US President Donald Trump renewed his attack on India due to energy imports from Russia.

“India is not only buying a large amount of Russian oil, but then they sell it in the open market for large profits for most of the purchased oil.

While global conversations focus on insulation, trade flows produce a more complex map. Among the policy catwalks and the port side manifestations, Moscow’s trade routes are far from being quiet.