{"id":80555,"date":"2025-07-31T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/donald-trump-threatens-india-with-penalty-over-russia-ties-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:44:07","slug":"donald-trump-threatens-india-with-penalty-over-russia-ties-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/donald-trump-threatens-india-with-penalty-over-russia-ties-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump threatens India with \u2018penalty\u2019 over Russia ties | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has threatened India with an &#8220;unspecified penalty&#8221; over its military and trade ties with Russia, as <!--more--> part of his push for a ceasefire in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions would be in addition to the 25% tariffs announced by the president this week, which are due to come into effect on 1 August.<\/p>\n<p>India is the largest importer of Russian arms worldwide, which make up more than half its military equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is also India&#8217;s top oil supplier, accounting for 35% of overall supplies in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Security Brief\u2019s Mikey Kay, a former Senior Officer in the British Military, explains the nature of the military relationship between the two countries \u2013 and looks at the role other nations are playing in Russia\u2019s arms arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Russia #US #India #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has threatened India with an &#8220;unspecified penalty&#8221; over its military and trade ties with Russia, as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}