New Delhi: President Donald Trump avoided the issue of China’s oil purchase from Russia during his meeting with President Xi Jinping at Busan in South Korea on Thursday, although he had been accusing both the communist country and India of funding the war in Ukraine by continuing energy imports from the former Soviet Union nation. The US president, however, kept claiming that India had agreed to slash its imports of oil from Russia. As several refiners based in India stopped placing fresh orders for crude oil from Russia, New Delhi on Thursday stated that India’s decisions on energy imports would “naturally take into account the evolving dynamics of the global market”. “We really didn’t discuss the oil,” Trump told journalists aboard Air Force One, while returning to Washington, D.C., afte

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