EU Imports of Russian LNG Top 2025 Value Ahead of January Ban

The EU has already paid more to import Russian LNG than it did for the whole of 2025, with a month and a half left until the full EU ban on imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia, German campaign group Urgewald said on Thursday. Between January and October, the EU paid as much as $9.6 billion (8.7 billion euros) to import gas from the Russian Yamal LNG project, according to Urgewald’s estimates based on vessel-tracking data by Kpler. The EU’s bill for importing Russian LNG has already topped by about 21% the estimated $8 billion…