US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made an enormous assertion on Tuesday (September 23, 2025) in regards to the purchase of India’s Russian oil. He stated that President Trump is contemplating to tighten the restrictions on Russia and enhance tariffs on India as India is consistently importing crude oil from Russia. Rubio stated that this step may be taken to strain the Ukraine struggle to finish. Along with this, he has requested Europe to impose comparable restrictions.
You have seen the steps we took for India: Rubio
In an interview to NBC, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated, “There are some countries in Europe, which are buying crude oil and natural gas from Russia on a large scale, which is absolutely absurd.”
He stated, ‘You have seen the steps we have now taken in relation to India, though we hope that it may be improved and President Trump has the power to take more steps and since the path wherein the state of affairs goes is contemplating it.’
Progress in dialog with India: Rubio
Earlier, in an interview to ABC News, Marco Rubio had stated, ‘The foremost difficulty of talks on commerce settlement with India is the purchase of oil from Russia. We lately held a gathering with him once more, which had points in regards to the purchase of crude oil from Russia, which has made lots of progress.
India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal is on a tour of America
India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal is at the moment on a go to to the US, the place he’s attempting to speed up additional talks over commerce between India and the US, which resumed after the private assembly of President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi final week.
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