Jaishankar in Moscow: ‘Perplexed’ by US Tariffs Despite Their Call to Stabilise Market via Russian Oil Imports
In a sharply-worded rebuttal to the Trump administration’s criticism of India’s energy trade with Russia, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said he was “very perplexed” by the logic behind the United States’ decision to impose a 25% tariff penalty on Indian goods over Russian oil purchases. Speaking in Moscow alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov,…