China and India are the "primary funders" of the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine by continuing to purchase Russian oil, US President Donald Trump said in his UN General Assembly address on Tuesday.

Trump also demanded that European allies immediately stop buying oil from Russia.

"They have to immediately cease all energy purchases from Russia. Otherwise we're all wasting a lot of time," Trump said of Europe in his address.

The Trump administration had earlier imposed an additional 25 per cent tariff on New Delhi as a penalty for its purchases of Russian oil, taking the total levies imposed on India by the US to 50 per cent, among the highest in the world.

India has called the tariffs imposed by the US "unjustified and unreasonable".

New Delhi said that, like any major economy, it will

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