India, Aug. 25 -- US President Donald Trump added one to his latest list of wars he claims to have stopped - oscillating between the numbers six and seven yet again - as he spoke to reporters at the White House on Monday.

He said four of these wars he stopped using trade tariffs as leverage. His list has mostly remained at six so far, including the claim that he "stopped potential nuclear war" between India and Pakistan in May - a claim India has denied but Trump has reiterated over two dozen times.

On Monday, he added to the list, yet again, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war that he is currently mediating to resolve, but then he moved from "stopped" to "settled".

"I thought that of the seven that we settled, this was going to be the easi...