President Donald Trump's simmering trade feud with India, a key U.S. economic and defense partner, has raised fears that New Delhi could be pushed deeper into Russia and China's orbit. Trump imposed a 25-percent tariff of all Indian goods coming into the United States from August 1 as well as an unspecified extra penalty for India's continued purchase of Russian oil amid the war in Ukraine.

Bipartisan groups in Congress are attempting to preserve a weapons procurement program for Ukraine that the Trump administration proposed eliminating.

A U.S. Senate committee approved a spending bill that includes $1 billion in support of Ukraine on July 31, despite the Trump administration's previous pledge to reduce funding allocated for military assistance to Ukraine in its upcoming defense budget.