The US on Thursday once again claimed that India has agreed to scale back its oil purchases from Russia.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “If you read the sanctions and look at them, they’re pretty hefty. I saw some international news out of China this morning that they’re scaling back oil purchases from Russia."

“We know India has done the same at the request of the President. The President has also pushed European countries, our allies, to stop their purchases of Russian oil as well. So it’s a full-court press for sure. We expect that these sanctions are going to do harm, as the Secretary of Treasury said yesterday," she told reporters at the press briefing.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump slapped major sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies after concl

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