WASHINGTON — The Trump administration wants Europe to stop buying Russian oil and join in its proposed sanctions targeting nations that continue to, a senior White House official told The Post on Tuesday.

Some European countries continue to rely on Moscow to meet their energy needs, helping to fuel Russia’s war machine despite reducing their reliance since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to a February report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.

While China, India and Turkey make up nearly 75% of all Russian fossil-fuel purchases with a combined $187.3 billion in sales last year, European nations still collectively purchased roughly $25.5 billion worth of them in 2024, according to the report by the Helsinki-based think tank. The

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