US President Donald Trump has once again asserted that India will “completely stop” purchasing oil from Russia, even as New Delhi maintains that its energy choices are based on national interests. Speaking aboard Air Force One on Saturday,

India-Russia trade today is more than energy; it includes engineering and mechanical goods, electronics, pharma ingredients, and

Private sector refining giant Reliance Industries (RIL), which alone accounts for around half of India’s Russian oil imports and sources a bulk of its Russian oil purchases from Rosneft under term deal,

Trump’s comments came just one day after Russia confirmed it had tested the Burevestnik, a nuclear-capable and nuclear-powered cruise missile