US President Donald Trump has once again claimed that his intervention stopped a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan, saying that seven fighter jets were shot down during the "raging" hostilities, a figure he had earlier put at five, and that he used trade pressure to halt the hostilities. "I have stopped all of these wars. A big one would have been India and Pakistan..." Trump said during a bilateral meeting with the President of the Republic of Korea.

He added, "The war with India and Pakistan was the next level that was going to be a nuclear war... They already shot down 7 jets - that was raging. I said, 'You want to trade? We are not doing any trade or anything with you if you keep fighting, you've got 24 hours to settle it'. They said, 'Well, there's no more war going on.' I used that on numerous occasions. I used trade and whatever I had to use..."

Trump has brought up the India-Pakistan conflict several times before. In July, he had claimed that five fighter jets were shot down before the two sides ceased hostilities, though he did not specify which side's aircraft were downed or what the jets were. Trump's new reference to "7 jets" comes weeks after Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh confirmed that India had taken down at least five Pakistani fighter aircraft during Operation Sindoor, along with a large surveillance plane.