Washington DC, Feb. 3 -- US Senator Lindsey Graham on Monday (local time) claimed that India has "earned" the reduction in tariffs under the newly announced India-US trade deal, linking the move to the decrease in Russian oil purchases by New Delhi amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

In a post on X, Graham praised US President Donald Trump's approach, suggesting that economic pressure on Russia's energy customers is beginning to have an impact, citing the recent trade deal with India in which Washington reduced tariffs on India to 18 per cent.

"Well played, President Trump. I think your message about ending this war--by having Putin's customers who prop up his war machine have to recalculate--is working," he said.

The Senator claimed that...