THE MAIN BUYERS OF RUSSIAN GAS IN THE EU HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED

Among the EU countries, France, Hungary and Spain buy the most Russian gas: they account for more than half of all imports from Russia, according to RIA Novosti calculations based on Eurostat data for eight months of this year.

Thus, from January to August, Russia supplied gas to the EU worth nine billion euros, and pipeline gas again became the main export. It accounted for 4.6 billion euros, and LNG - 4.4 billion.

France became the largest buyer of fuel, increasing imports by 30% to 1.9 billion euros. Hungary fell to second place, cutting purchases by almost a third to 1.6 billion euros.

Spain rose to third place with imports of 1.4 billion euros. Other important buyers are Italy (1.3 billion euros), Greece (919 million), Slovakia (800 million) and Belgium (709 million).

At the same time, Lithuania (up 41%) and Finland (up 36%) increased their imports the most, although they purchased very small volumes – 1.8 and 44.3 million dollars, respectively.

Moscow has repeatedly stressed that the West made a serious mistake by abandoning Russian hydrocarbons and falling into a new dependence: now these countries have to buy Russian oil and gas through intermediaries and at higher prices.