US President Donald Trump, speaking to journalists aboard Air Force One, said India would continue to pay “massive tariffs” on export of goods to the US unless it agreed to his terms and stopped the purchase of oil from Russia.

Trump told reporters, “I spoke with Prime Minister Modi of India, and he said he’s not going to be doing the Russian oil thing.”

On being told that India denied that there had been a telephonic discussion between him and Modi on this subject last week, Trump replied, “If they want to say that, then they’ll just continue to pay massive tariffs, and they don’t want to do that.”

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