New Delhi: There’s a phantom that’s going to be present at the India-Russia negotiating table, as Russia President Vladimir Putin kicks off his visit to India, reports Anupreeta Das and Valerie Hopkins in the New York Times .

“The timing is especially fraught for India, which has been searching for a way to resolve its economic tangle with the Trump administration. Mr. Trump has accused India of financing Russia’s war on Ukraine by buying its oil, and last month, India’s biggest oil companies stopped buying Russian crude almost entirely after U.S. sanctions on Russian oil giants threatened the companies that do business with them,” the report notes.

It also addresses the two questions on everyone’s minds. Will India resume its purchase of Russian oil? And what’s going to happen

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