The U.S. president argued that Russia, having lost India as its “second largest customer,” was forced back to the table. “India was the second largest, and getting pretty close to China. China is the largest purchaser of Russian oil,

Well, he (Russian President Vladimir Putin) lost an oil client, so to speak, which is India, which was doing about 40 per cent of the oil. China, as you know, is doing a lot...And if I did what's called a secondary sanction,

Refiners in India, the world’s top importer of seaborne Russian crude, are scouring the globe for alternative supplies, hedging their bets ahead of a summit between the US and Russian leaders.