Indian Foreign Minister Meets with Putin, Claims to Be ‘Perplexed’ by U.S. Tariffs on Russian Oil

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday.

At a press conference afterward, Jaishankar said he was “perplexed” by the 25 percent punitive tariff imposed on India by President Donald Trump for buying Russian oil.

“We believe that relations between India and Russia have been among the steadiest of the major relationships in the world after the Second World War. Geo-political convergence, leadership contacts and popular sentiment remain its key drivers,” Jaishankar said at the press conference, flanked by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Jaishankar said he found Trump’s…

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