Sri Lanka may be compelled to buy more oil from Russia as the nation faces shortages amid an unprecedented economic crisis
, its prime minister has said.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, in an interview with the Associated Press news agency on Saturday, said he would first look to other sources, but would be open to buying more crude from Moscow.The country is in the midst of its worst financial crisis in seven decades and severely strapped for dollars to pay for critical imports including food, fuel and medicine.
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