New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- President Donald Trump's trusted aide and US trade adviser Peter Navarro said he was "firebombed by the Indian continent on the internet" over an op-ed he wrote last year on India's crude oil purchase from Russia. Navarro's allegations that New Delhi's oil trade with Russia had supported Moscow's war efforts were strongly rejected by the Indian government as "inaccurate and misleading".

In his op-ed in the Financial Times last year, the US trade adviser had claimed India's increased involvement in the Russian oil trade following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. He added that India had subsequently sold large quantities of refined petroleum products on Russia's behalf, which he alleged helped sustain Moscow's war effort...