The White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday (native time) claimed that India had scaled again Russian oil imports at US President Donald Trump's “request” and China was doing the identical.“Should you learn the sanctions and take a look at them, they're fairly hefty. I noticed some worldwide information out of China this morning that they are scaling again oil purchases from Russia. We all know India has finished the identical on the request of the president,” Leavitt stated at a White Home press briefing.
“The president has additionally pushed European nations, our allies, to cease their purchases of Russian oil as properly. So it is a full-court press for certain. We count on that these sanctions are going to do hurt, because the Secretary of Treasury stated yesterday,” she added.This comes a day after Trump claimed that India would regularly reduce down its Russian oil imports to “nothing” by the top of the yr.“India, as you realize, has advised me they'll cease…it is a course of. You may't simply cease (shopping for oil from Russia). By the top of the yr, they're going to be all the way down to nearly nothing; nearly 40 % of the oil,” he stated.India has dismissed studies of any coverage shift, reiterating that its precedence stays safeguarding client pursuits. The clarification comes after Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Indian items in response to India's continued buy of Russian oil.
