WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Friday reiterated his claim that India has "de-escalated" on buying Russian oil, as he met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House.
“India is not going to be buying Russian oil anymore. And they have already de-escalated, and they have more or less stopped; they are pulling back. They bought about 38 per cent of the oil, and they won't be doing it anymore, ” he added.
Trump on Wednesday asserted that he has been “assured” that India won’t be buying oil from Russia, while adding that he understood that it couldn’t be done “immediately.”