{"id":181210,"date":"2025-06-13T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/181210\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:44:20","slug":"eu-has-purchased-e33-billion-worth-of-russian-liquefied-natural-gas-since-february-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/181210\/","title":{"rendered":"EU has purchased \u20ac33 billion worth of Russian liquefied natural gas since February 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stock photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has imported Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) worth \u20ac32.7 billion since the start of Moscow&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: German news magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stern.de\/politik\/eu-bezieht-russisches-gas-in-milliardenhoehe---trotz-krieg-35802722.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stern<\/a>, as reported by European Pravda<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details<\/strong>: Stern noted that this figure was provided by the German Federal Statistical Office in response to a request from the pro-Russian Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>According to the data received, the cost of LNG imports from Russia to the EU between February 2022 and March 2025 amounts to almost \u20ac33 billion.<\/p>\n<p>During the same period, the European Union imported LNG from the United States worth \u20ac95.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In Stern magazine, BSW leader Sahra Wagenknecht criticised the costly double standards of the sanctions policy: &#8220;\u20ac33 billion for Russian LNG since the start of the war, but Russian pipeline gas is deemed taboo in Germany&#8221;. BSW has long advocated restarting the Nord Stream gas pipeline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, chair of the European Parliament&#8217;s Committee on Security and Defence, however, is calling for a stop to imports of Russian LNG. She said: &#8220;It is completely unacceptable that the European Union continues to import liquefied natural gas from Russia worth billions of euros three years after the start of Putin&#8217;s brutal war of aggression&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">German Chancellor Friedrich Merz promised to do everything possible to weaken Russia&#8217;s military machine and prevent the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from becoming operational.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">The European Union is reportedly close to a decision to include Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 in a new draft of sanctions against Russia, putting an end to rumours about their possible resumption.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stock photo: Getty Images The European Union has imported Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) worth \u20ac32.7 billion since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,5435,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-181210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-gas","12":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114676358390999598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}