“According to US President Donald Trump, India has largely stopped buying Russian oil after sanctions and tariffs from Washington.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Trump during a conversation with journalists in the Oval Office, quoted by “Interfax-Ukraine”
Details: The journalist asked Trump how his negotiations with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are going.
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“Excellent, everything is going well. He stopped, mostly stopped buying oil from Russia,” Trump replied.
He added that Modi is inviting him to visit India. The American president promised that he would make such a visit.
According to Trump, he may fly to India next year.
What preceded: In late October, the media reported that Indian oil refining companies had not placed new orders to buy Russian oil since the sanctions were imposed and were awaiting clarification from the government and suppliers.
We will remind:
The United States introduced sanctions against the largest Russian oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil, as well as their subsidiaries.
In the morning of October 23, the European Union finally approved the 19th package of sanctions against Russia by written procedure.
The Indian company Reliance Industries Ltd. purchased millions of barrels of crude oil from the Middle East and the United States after Washington imposed sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil.