United States President Donald Trump on Sunday repeated his claim that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi told him New Delhi will stop buying Russian oil, Reuters reported.

Trump warned that India will continue to pay “massive tariffs” if it fails to do so.

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

On October 15, Trump had told reporters that Modi agreed to halt India’s Russian oil imports “within a short period of time”, which he described as “a big stop”.

Hours later, India’s Ministry of External Affairs issued a statement that neither confirmed nor denied Trump’s claim, but maintained that ensuring stable energy prices and secure supplies were the goals of the country’s energy pol

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