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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Norway urged to step up Ukraine support after profiting from war

A Norwegian LNG facility near Hammerfest
An LNG facility near Hammerfest. Norway has replaced Russia as Europe’s largest supplier of natural gas since the start of the war in Ukraine. Photograph: Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB/AFP/Getty Images

Norwegian academics, rights campaigners, bestselling authors and a former minister have urged Oslo to increase its support for Ukraine, saying the government must do more to help after earning billions in extra oil and gas revenue from Russia’s war.

In a letter published in the VG tabloid, signatories including the former foreign minister Knut Vollebæk, the anthropologist Erika Fatland and Henrik Urdal of the Oslo Peace Research Institute said Norway was “the only country in Europe” to be profiting from the war.

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