France, Belgium, Spain, and the Netherlands spent €34.3 billion on Russian liquefied natural gas between 2022 and 2025, while their bilateral aid to Ukraine totaled €21.2 billion during the same period, according to a Greenpeace report.
The four countries accounted for 95% of Russian LNG imports to the EU, data from Eurostat shows. The Kiel Institute's Ukraine Support Tracker indicates their combined humanitarian, military, and financial assistance to Ukraine reached €21.2 billion over the three-year period.
Greenpeace estimates that tax revenues from Yamal LNG, the company supplying the gas, amount to approximately $9.5 billion. The report calculates this sum could purchase 9.5 million 152mm artillery shells, 271,000 Shahed-type drones, or 2,686 T-90M tanks for Russia's armed forces.
While pipeline gas imports from Russia have nearly disappeared, LNG shipments have persisted and grown, Greenpeace reports. In 2024, Russian LNG imports were 11% higher than in 2023.
The report identifies a tracking problem: gas arriving in France, Spain, and Belgium is partially redirected to other countries, where it becomes classified as French or Belgian rather than Russian. This makes determining the actual destination of Russian gas difficult.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen previously said that the EU plans to impose a ban on Russian LNG imports as part of a new sanctions package.
