India, Sept. 12 -- US-India trade deal talks are back on after some mutual admiration between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but the US treasury again on Friday said India's purchase of oil from Russia is "funding Putin's war machine" against Ukraine.

The treasury on Friday called on the Group of Seven and European Union allies to impose "meaningful tariffs" on inward trade with China and India. It also convened a G7 meeting on finances specifically to discuss how pressure could be stepped up on Moscow to end the war.

"Chinese and Indian purchases of Russian oil are funding Putin's war machine and prolonging the senseless killing of the Ukrainian people," a US Treasury spokesperson said in an emailed statement ...