India, Sept. 23 -- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday said President Donald Trump is considering more sanctions on Russia, such as penal trade tariffs on India for buying oil from the country, to force an end to the Ukraine war. He prefaced that with a call for Europe, too, to impose such sanctions.

"Right now there are countries in Europe that are still buying massive amounts of oil and natural gas from Russia, which is absurd," Rubio said in an interaction with NBC.

"We've already seen the measures we've taken with regards to India, although that's something we hope we can fix," he added, "And the President has the ability to do more, and he's considering doing more because of the direction this has taken."

Earlier, Rubio s...