{"id":1306932,"date":"2025-10-16T08:15:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/this-is-funding-a-war-trump-forced-india-to-cut-oil-imports-from-russia\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:15:05","slug":"this-is-funding-a-war-trump-forced-india-to-cut-oil-imports-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/this-is-funding-a-war-trump-forced-india-to-cut-oil-imports-from-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is funding a war\u201d: Trump forced India to cut oil imports from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised US President Donald Trump to cut purchases of Russian oil, a resource that has so far remained one of the key financial sources for the war against Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Trump made this statement during a press conference with FBI Director Kesh Patel, the American press reports.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;He [Modi] assured me today that he will no longer buy oil from Russia. That&#8217;s a big step. Now I have to convince China to do the same,&#8221; the American leader said.<\/p>\n<p> Trump added that the cessation of purchases will be gradual, but the process has already begun and &#8220;will be completed soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> According to Trump, the purchase of Russian oil by Asian countries, in particular India, is effectively financing the war, allowing the Kremlin to maintain an army and continue its aggression:<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This is a senseless war where they have already lost one and a half million people,&#8221; Trump stressed, speaking of Russia&#8217;s losses.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rozsliduvannia-albaniia-stala-perevalochnym-punktom-dlia-kontrabandnoi-nafty-z-rf\/\">the Russian Federation is actively looking for ways to circumvent international sanctions in order to continue exporting refined oil products<\/a> , a key source of budget revenue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/indiyski-derzhkompanii-pochaly-platyty-za-rosiysku-naftu-v-iuaniakh\/\">Russian oil traders are reportedly demanding that Indian state-owned companies switch to Chinese yuan payments instead of dollars or dirhams,<\/a> a move that is expected to simplify financial transactions and minimize costs amid sanctions and geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised US President Donald Trump to cut purchases of Russian oil, a resource that has so far remained one of the key financial sources for the war against Ukraine. Trump made this statement during a press conference with FBI Director Kesh Patel, the American press reports. &#8220;He [Modi] assured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1306926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76885,76870,76871],"class_list":["post-1306932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-policy","category-world","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1306926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}