US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (October 15) claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured him that New Delhi would stop purchasing Russian oil, months after the US imposed punitive tariffs on India over these imports.

"He's assured me there will be no oil purchased from Russia," Trump told reporters at the White House. "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."

"Now we’ve got to get China to do the same thing," he said, adding that pressuring Beijing would be "relatively easy compared to what we just did over the last week in the Middle East."

Concerns over India’s oil purchases

Trump said he raised concerns with PM Modi about India’s continued imports of Russian oil , which the US sees a

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