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.” “He assured me today that they will not be buying oil from Russia…You can't do it immediately. It's a little bit of a process, but the process is going to be over with soon, and all we want fro

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