Moscow, Feb. 10 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took a dig at the United States in an interview with TV BRICS and said that there are efforts to ban India and other partners from purchasing Russian oil, Sputnik reported on Monday.

The Russian Foreign Minister also spoke about several areas such as the peace talks in Alaska last year, and how Washington has set itself the objective of achieving economic domination while they use "coercive" measures like tariffs, sanctions and direct prohibitions.

Lavrov said, "They (US) tell us that the Ukraine problem should be resolved. In Anchorage, we accepted the US Proposal... The US position was important to us. By accepting their proposal, we seem to have completed the task of resolving...