India to Face Significant Cost If Aligned With Russia, U.S. Says

  • Deese says U.S. ‘disappointed’ with some Modi moves on Ukraine
  • New Delhi continuing to buy Russian oil, weaponry despite war
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President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser said the administration has warned India against aligning itself with Russia, and that U.S. officials have been “disappointed” with some of New Delhi’s reaction to the Ukraine invasion.

“There are certainly areas where we have been disappointed by both China and India’s decisions, in the context of the invasion,” the director of the White House National Economic Council, Brian Deese, told reporters at a breakfast Wednesday hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.