EU has paid Russia $209 billion for energy supplies since March 2022, - media
Between March 2022 and July 2026, EU member states paid Russia approximately 197 billion euros ($209 billion) for energy supplies.
According to Censor.NET, the European Parliament reports this, citing European Union statistics.
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According to estimates by European institutions, without the REPowerEU plan (the EU’s planned phased phase-out of Russian energy sources), this figure could have reached around 475 billion euros.
"Consequently, reducing its dependence on Russian fossil fuels has enabled the EU to avoid additional costs of approximately 278 billion euros," said the source.
He pointed out that as early as 2023, imports from Russia accounted for only around 6 per cent of the European Union’s total expenditure on fossil fuels.
President Trump had previously claimed that the European Union had allegedly paid Russia $250 billion for energy supplies.
The US-Russia diesel deal and threats against Ukraine
- On 9 October, US President Donald Trump stated that he had spoken with the Russian dictator Putin, with whom he had agreed on the supply of diesel fuel from Russia to markets in the US and around the world.
- According to him, Russia will "immediately" supply more than 300,000 tonnes of diesel to the US and global markets, a further 500,000 tonnes during November, and another million tonnes "immediately afterwards".
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The US Department of the Treasury announced that, on Trump’s instructions, the Office of Foreign Assets Control is immediately issuing a temporary general licence to permit the supply of Russian diesel fuel to the global market.
- In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described Russia’s authorisation to sell petroleum products as an "investment in war" and called on the US to hold firm talks with Moscow and impose sanctions under the Lindsey Graham Act.
- Axios reported that, during talks in Miami, US President’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner allegedly warned the Ukrainian side that access to US intelligence might be cut off if Ukraine continued to carry out strikes on Russian oil refineries.
- On 11 October, President Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine would be prepared to halt attacks on Russian oil refineries if Russia stopped striking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
- On the same day, US President Donald Trump announced the start of an energy truce between Ukraine and Russia.
- In a comment to Axios, Zelenskyy said that US President Donald Trump’s announcement of the start of an "energy truce" came as a surprise to the Ukrainian side.
- The President later stated that Ukraine was prepared to refrain from striking at Russia’s energy sector, provided that Russia took similar steps.
