EXCLUSIVE: EU funds Putin’s Russia with 35% INCREASE in purchases of LNG

Russia is now the EU’s second-largest supplier of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

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On the anniversary of the Nordstream underwater pipeline explosion, we blow the lid off the EU’s hypocrisy

Yesterday the EU published a statement of such hypocrisy and duplicity that even the Brexit Facts4EU.Org think-tank team were astonished. Our overnight analysis – using the EU’s own figures - proves that the EU has massively INCREASED its purchases of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Putin’s Russia since his second illegal invasion of Ukraine.

In addition we show how the EU’s purchases have continued to increase this year (2023), despite the mounting evidence of Putin’s war crimes and a series of ‘sanctions packages’ which the EU Commission has proudly been announcing every couple of months.

Today, on the anniversary of the Nordstream underwater gas pipelines explosions, the Brexit Facts4EU.Org think-tank team blows the lid off the EU’s hypocrisy using the EU’s own data.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

The 35% increase in the EU’s purchases of LNG from Putin’s Russia

In millions of cubic metres

26.8% increase between 2021 and 2022
34.6% increase comparing first half of 2021 with first half of 2023
At current rates this will be even higher by year end

[Source : EU Commission (Eurostat), 26 Sept 2023.]

The EU taketh away, and the EU giveth back

The EU’s statement yesterday tries to imply reduced purchases from Russia. It refers to the supply of energy products and focuses on just two of these: petroleum oils and natural gas.

At 1am one year ago today, an underwater explosion registered in seismic monitoring stations in northern Europe. The supply of natural gas to Germany via Russia’s Nordstream I and Nordstream II pipelines was immediately disrupted. It is therefore hardly surprising that supplies of natural gas from Russia in its gaseous state have fallen.

Conveniently the EU fails to mention Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) until the end of its statement, and even then it omits to mention the extraordinary 35% increase in the volumes of this product that the EU27 are now buying from Russia.

Here is what the EU said yesterday

Despite the evidence above, collated by Brexit Facts4EU.Org overnight using the EU’s own official data, below is what the EU had to say yesterday.

“In terms of net mass, Russia's shares in the EU imports of petroleum oils and natural gas have been decreasing continuously over time since the second quarter of 2022. Petroleum oils imports from Russia fell from a monthly average of 8.7 million tonnes in the second quarter of 2022 to 1.6 million tonnes in the second quarter of this year (-82%), but, in contrast, the imports from the extra-EU partners except Russia increased by 5.8 million tonnes, from 31.5 million to 37.3 million tonnes.
“Russia's share in total EU imports of petroleum oils was 4.0% in the second quarter of 2023, a staggering difference from the 21.6% share recorded in the same quarter of last year.”
- EU Commission official statistics agency, 25 Sept 2023

After 12 sets of EU ‘sanctions packages’, why isn’t this trade illegal?

As readers can see, yesterday the EU continued to pump out its propaganda about the reduction in its supplies of energy products from Russia, following Putin’s second illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. His first illegal invasion (of Ukraine’s Crimea) took place in 2014.

Cutting through the propaganda, Russia remains the second-largest supplier in the World to the EU for its supplies of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) – and these EU purchases are growing fast.

Observations

It is now 18 months since President Putin launched his latest and most deadly illegal invasion of Ukraine. In that time the EU has talked big but has been very slow to deliver on effective sanctions.

As we have reported many times, the independent United Kingdom acted immediately.

Whilst the EU’s imports of petroleum fuels have decreased, it has actually increased its imports of Russian LNG to compensate.

These decisions are still made at national level in the absence of EU-led sanctions – and the EU has yet to ban the imports of Russian LNG. EU countries are therefore able to continue funding Putin’s Russia, 18 months since the war started, and are buying up Russia’s LNG at ever increasing rates.

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Reader Comments 6

1. Ashley Great Britain , Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 06:04:

You can buy LNG from many other countries in the world but the EU don't care.
They were warned for many years not to become reliant on Russia.
The Uk has also been hard hit by war on Ukraine but has stopped buying Russian fuels.
If ever there was a time to use our own resources and be self sufficient it's now.

2. John Hardman , Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 11:19:

The NON elected empire builders have a better propaganda machine then the Nazis ever had
And some delusional misfits still want to join the club

3. Captain Thunderbolt , Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 11:21:

This is one of the areas stalled in the EU/AU trade agreement, they could be getting cheap LNG but because the EU are insisting in GI and no real for Australian agriculture products quota increase, the Australians right said RACK OFF

4. jon iivesey , Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 17:41:

I am sorry to say that facts4eu identifies the right problems, but then comes out with soppy "Soccer Mom" explanations. Last week it was politicians being "weak" and this week it is EU "hypocrisy". You don't get into politics by being "weak" and the EU does not get up in the morning aiming to set new records in "hypocrisy". The EU has a high energy low tech economic model based on manufacturing, and that means they have to have energy supplies. It's not hypocrisy; it's an existential issue. If you have the wrong economic model, you have to do unattractive things in the short term - like building coal fired power stations, or buying Russian gas - to survive for the long term.
I think facts4eu does a great job in raising issues, but you can't analyse the EU as if it was a personal moral issue. You have to think about economics, or you just can't understand it. The EU's need for energy risks eventually splitting NATO, which is obviously part of Putin's plan, and that is far more important than moral disapproval.

5. jon iivesey , Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 17:46:

1. Ashley Great Britain . Yup, I agree. And that means we have to allow fracking, on-shore wind farms, small nuclear power stations, R&D money for fusion, and we have to think of power supplies as a national security issue, and not just about which power sources are cheapest. Power supplies are strategic for the rest of the economy, and a UK with surplus power could have any economy it wants.

6. LuxuryBalloon , Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 21:59:

More overwhelming proof that EUers are a hypocritical bunch of Nazis.

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