Donald Trump's consistent efforts at brokering peace directly led to European leaders gathering at the White House within 48 hours of his meeting with Putin.

The dramatic increase in India’s purchases of Russian oil since the invasion of Ukraine is “opportunistic and deeply corrosive” of a global effort to isolate the Kremlin and curb Vladimir Putin’s war machine,

Russia on Wednesday said “India matters very much” for Moscow, noting the two phone calls to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the situation in Ukraine.

While Indian state refiners have paused Russian oil purchases in the wake of US tariffs, Chinese refineries have continued to buy Russian oil under encouragement from the Trump administration.

WH Trade Advisor Peter Navarro says that India has now become a major refining hub for Russian oil, while at the same time claiming neutrality to avoid "sanctions scrutiny".

Russia President Vladimir Putin will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi by the end of this year, Reuters reported, citing a Russian embassy official in India on Wednesday. No dates have been finalised for Putin's visit yet.

India and China are aware of the “very high political, economic and military cost of frozen relations,” he says. “China felt it had pushed India too close to the U.S. while India realized that it was losing its vaunted strategic autonomy by getting too close to Washington and turning Beijing into an adversary.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Washington, where he is scheduled to meet Donald Trump at 1:15 pm EDT (10:45 pm IST, Monday) in the Ova