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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ajit Niranjan

EU spends more on Russian oil and gas than financial aid to Ukraine – report

A worker seen next to a pipe at a construction site on the extension of Russia's TurkStream pipeline
A construction site for the extension of the Turkstream pipeline in 2020. European leaders could cut Russia’s fossil fuel revenues through measures such as restricting gas flows through the pipe. Photograph: Stoyan Nenov/Reuters

The EU is spending more money on Russian fossil fuels than on financial aid to Ukraine, a report marking the third anniversary of the invasion has found.

EU member states bought €21.9bn (£18.1bn) of Russian oil and gas in the third year of the war, according to estimates from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (Crea), despite the efforts under way to kick the continent’s addiction to the fuels that fund Vladimir Putin’s war chest.

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