Overview

• An NGO report says the EU imported 12.8 billion cubic meters of Russian LNG in the first eight months of 2025, with pipeline flows down but seaborne gas still significant.
• Greenpeace estimates Yamal LNG earned about $40 billion in 2022–2024 and paid roughly $9.5 billion in profit taxes to Russia, which the group calculates could fund large amounts of military equipment.
• The study names TotalEnergies, Germany’s state-owned Sefe and Spain’s Naturgy as leading EU customers and estimates their contributions to Russian profit taxes, with Engie, Shell and Gunvor also cited.
• The report says France, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands spent €34.3 billion on Russian LNG from 2022 to June 2025 versus €21.2 billion in bilateral aid to Ukraine over the same period.
• The European Commission has proposed ending Russian gas imports by early 2027 and offering safeguards for firms facing long-term contract claims, while companies point to binding deals such as Sefe’s to Yamal until 2038.