India Rejects Trump Adviser Peter Navarro's "Inaccurate and Misleading" Claims About Russian Oil Imports

Sep 05, 2025 09:45 pm CST

India's Ministry of External Affairs has officially rejected statements made by Peter Navarro, senior trade advisor to US President Donald Trump, regarding India's Russian oil imports and foreign policy. The diplomatic tension has escalated following Navarro's controversial characterization of the Russia-Ukraine conflict as "Modi's war" and his claims that India operates a "profiteering scheme" through Russian oil imports, amid growing trade disputes between the two nations.