America’s latest sanctions on top Russian oil producers throw India’s lucrative energy strategy into disarray, leaving it to navigate soaring costs, disrupted supplies, and the politics of managing relations with Washington and Moscow.

For months, President Donald Trump resisted calls to slap new sanctions on Russia, believing he could end the war in a deal with Vladimir Putin — including with a quick peace summit in the coming weeks in Budapest.

The Kremlin may have convinced itself that US President Donald Trump didn’t have the stomach to apply real pressure on Moscow to end the brutal conflict in Ukraine.

"We're choking off funding for Russia's war machine," said prime minister Keir Starmer after the “Coalition of the Willing” summit in London on Friday. Sir Keir added that the UK’s missile plan is “accelerating” in a bid to support Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hailed "very important" new U.S. and European Union energy sanctions on Russia on Thursday, but said more pressure would be needed on Moscow to secure a ceasefire in the war.