Kremlin slams Trump's threat to hike tariffs on India over Russian oil purchases
"Sovereign countries have the right to choose their own trading partners," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, criticising calls to "force countries to sever trading relations" with Russia as "illegitimate."
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