Three EU states paid more for Russian LNG than they gave to Ukraine

Those three member states, which are the EU countries importing the most Russian LNG, together spent €34.3bn between 2022 and June 2025 — while their combined support for Ukraine was €21.2bn. Before the February 2022 invasion, Russian gas (including both pipeline and LNG) accounted for 45 percent of Europe’s energy demands. The EU Commission has recently put forward a proposal for member states to stop importing all Russian fossil fuels by 2027. And while most EU member states backed the plan, Slovakia and Hungary opposed the move. As national capitals try to move away from Russian LNG, the EU plans to import more LNG from the US.