India flags US' uranium imports from Russia, here is Trump's response
PTC News Desk: Amid Donald Trump's tariff threats to India over oil imports from Russia, the US President said that he is unaware about the country's uranium uranium and fertiliser trade with Moscow, which India highlighted while defending its Russian imports.
"I don't know anything about it. I have to check it out," Trump said when asked about India’s mention that Washington was singling it out unfairly while continuing to do business with Russia itself.
Responding to ANI's question on US imports of Russian Uranium, chemical fertilisers while criticising their (Indian) energy imports', US President Donald Trump says, "I don't know anything about it. I have to check..."
#WATCH | Responding to ANI's question on US imports of Russian Uranium, chemical fertilisers while criticising their (Indian) energy imports', US President Donald Trump says, "I don't know anything about it. I have to check..."
(Source: US Network Pool via Reuters) pic.twitter.com/OOejcaGz2t — ANI (@ANI) August 5, 2025
India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) had issued a statement a day earlier, defending its Russian oil imports and accusing the US and European Union of hypocrisy.
US-Russia Trade
Three years after President Vladimir Putin initiated a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the United States continues to import billions of dollars’ worth of Russian energy and raw materials, including enriched uranium. Since January 2022, U.S. imports from Russia have totaled $24.51 billion. In 2024 alone, Washington brought in $1.27 billion worth of fertilizers, $624 million in uranium and plutonium, and approximately $878 million in palladium from Russia.
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