NDTV:
US President Donald Trump has claimed that India has assured him that it will curb its Russian seaborne crude exports, months after Washington slapped 25 per cent punitive tariffs on New Delhi over the purchase. The US leader also said he would try to get China to do the same as Washington intensifies efforts to cut off Moscow’s energy revenues.
New Delhi and Beijing are the two top buyers of Russian seaborne crude exports.
“He (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) has assured me there will be no oil purchased from Russia… You know, you can’t do it immediately. It’s a little bit of a process, but the process is going to be over with soon,” Trump told reporters.
He further claimed that if India doesn’t buy Russian oil, “it makes it much easier” for him to broker a truce between Russia and Ukraine. “…They will go back to Russia after the war is over,” he added.
