India, Jan. 8 -- Poland has backed India amid New Delhi's standoff with the United States over its purchase of Russian oil, with Warsaw saying that it was "satisfied" with India's cutback on imports from Moscow.

This comes amid US President Donald Trump's renewed threats against India, including the possibility of imposing punitive levies running as high as 500 per cent over the Russian oil imports amid the Ukraine War.

"I expressed my satisfaction that India has reduced Russian oil imports because this is fuelling Putin's war machine," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said after India's inaugural engagement with the Weimar Triangle grouping on Wednesday in Paris.

External affairs minister S Jaishankar, along with his French c...