White House trade adviser Peter Navarro ramped up his criticism of India's Russian oil imports, accusing New Delhi of financing Russia's war in Ukraine and dubbing the conflict "Modi’s war."

Navarro spoke soon after the Trump administration doubled tariffs on Indian goods to 50 percent. The move aims to extract trade concessions and pressure Russia through India. He claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi was funding Russia’s military machine.

"I mean Modi's war, because the road to peace runs, in part, through New Delhi," Navarro said during a Bloomberg Television show.

He claimed that by buying Russian crude at discounted rates, India is helping Russia and hurting the US. He said this forces Washington to finance Ukraine while Americans suffer economically.

"Everybody in America loses because of what India is doing. Consumers, businesses, workers lose because India's high tariffs cost us jobs, and factories, and income and higher wages. And then the taxpayers lose, because we’ve got to fund Modi’s war," Navarro said.