Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured US President Donald Trump that India will stop buying Russian oil. Trump made the announcement during a press conference with FBI Director Kesh Patel.
“He assured me today that he will not buy Russian oil. That is an important step. Now I have to convince China to do the same, the US president said.
According to him, the decision to stop buying Russian oil will not be immediate, but the process will be completed soon. Trump stressed that India’s purchase of Russian oil “allows the Russian Federation to continue this senseless war, where they have already lost one and a half million people.”
Recall that on September 12, the US Treasury Department appealed to its allies from the “Group of Seven” and the European Union with a call to impose “significant tariffs” on products from China and India in order to force them to stop purchasing Russian oil.
“China and India’s purchase of Russian oil funds Putin’s war machine and continues the senseless killing of the Ukrainian people,” the department said.
On September 23, during the UN General Assembly, Trump called China and India “the main sponsors” of the Russia’s war against Ukraine over their purchases of Russian oil and gas.
