India, March 11 -- The White House, on Tuesday, once against stated its reasoning behind "allowing" India to purchase Russian oil. Speaking to reporters, press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that the decision, which has approved by US President Donald Trump and US Treasury Department comes as "our allies in India have been good actors".

"We came to this decision as our allies in India have been good actors and had previously stopped buying sanctioned Russian oil.so as we work to appease this temporary gap of oil supply on the world because of the Iranians, we have temporarily permitted India to accept Russian oil

She added that the US approved this decision as this Russian oil coming to India was "already at sea" and will "not provid...