As India continues to buy Russian oil, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro claimed that New Delhi’s purchases were funding Moscow's war in Ukraine. He termed the India trade relation with Russia as ‘opportunistic’ while stating that the country was using dollars earned from trade with America to buy oil from Russia.

The dramatic increase in India’s purchases of Russian oil since the invasion of Ukraine is “opportunistic and deeply corrosive” of a global effort to isolate the Kremlin and curb Vladimir Putin’s war machine,

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said India's purchases of Russian crude were funding Moscow's war in Ukraine and had to stop.