US President Donald Trump is the only person who has been going around telling the world that India plans to stop buying oil from its all-weather, longtime ally Russia, the foreign minister of the transcontinental nation said.
Trump, while announcing a framework trade deal with New Delhi last week, claimed India agreed not to buy crude oil from Russia. The US alleged Russia uses the money it gets from selling oil to fund the war in Ukraine.
“No one other than Trump has claimed that India plans to stop buying Russian oil,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
“There are no grounds to believe that Russian-Indian agreements are in jeopardy,” he added.
