Trump aide accuses India of financing Russia’s war
President Donald Trump’s high -level assistant accused the US leader’s pressure to stop receiving Russian oil to the new Delhi and accused India of effective financing the Russian war in Ukraine by purchasing oil from Moscow.
Stephen Miller, one of the most influential assistants of Trump, the White House Deputy Chief of General Staff, said, “(Trump) is very clearly that India’s oil from Russia can not be accepted to finance this war by purchasing it from Russia.” He said.
Miller’s criticism was some of the most powerful of one of the US’s major partners in Indo-Pacific by the Trump administration.
“People will be shocked to find out that India is basically connected to China in purchasing Russian oil. This is a surprising fact.” He said.
The Indian Embassy in Washington did not respond immediately to the request for comments. Indian government resources told Reuters on Saturday, despite the US threats, the new Delhi will continue to buy oil from Moscow.
As a result of the acquisition of military equipment and energy from Russia, a 25 percent tariff on Indian products on Friday entered into force. Trump also threatened 100 percent of tariffs for imports from countries that bought Russian oil unless Moscow reached a great peace agreement with Ukraine.
Miller convened his criticism by stating his relationship with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which Trump described as “enormous”.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian drone attack, local authorities on Sunday, said two oil tanks to fire in a oil warehouse in South Russia in Southern Russia.
Veniamin Kondratyev, the governor of the Krasnodar region in the surrounding area, said that more than 120 firefighters were deployed.
The Russian Defense Ministry said the air defense units destroyed 93 Ukrainian drones, including the waters of Krasnodar region and 60 Black Sea.
The ministry, how many planes of units, how many Ukraine has been initiated reported.
Russian Civil Aviation Authority Rosaviatsia briefly stopped flights at Sochi Airport before continuing.
He did not immediately comment that he thought Kiev from Ukraine, which frequently attacks the infrastructure in Russia, was the key to Moscow’s war efforts.
In a Ukrainian drone attack at the end of last month, a woman was killed in the Adler region of Sochi, but the attacks on the city hosting the 2014 Winter Olympic Games became rare in the war initiated by Russia in February 2022.
The Krasnodar region is home to the Ilky refinery near Krasnodar, among the largest southern Russia’s largest and Ukraine’s drone attacks.
Again on Sunday, the governor of the Voronezh region in Southern Russia, according to the military administration of the Ukrainian capital, said four people were injured in Ukraine drone strike, which caused several fires.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that units destroyed 18 Ukrainian drones on the Voronezh region, which limits Ukraine.
