Analysis-How Ukraine's European allies fuel Russia's war economy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : That dwarfs the amount the EU has spent on aid to Ukraine in the same period, even though it has been the country's biggest benefactor: the bloc has allocated 167 billion euros of financial, military and humanitarian assistance to Kyiv, according to the Kiel Institute, a German economic think-tank.
62% : Vaibhav Raghunandan, EU-Russia specialist at CREA, described increased flows as "a form of self-sabotage" by some countries, given energy sales are the biggest source of revenue for Russia as it wages war against an European-backed Ukraine.
59% : It nonetheless imported more than 11 billion euros of Russian energy in the first eight months of this year, according to a Reuters analysis of data from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), an independent research organization based in Helsinki.
56% : Its large deliveries of military and humanitarian aid to Kyiv are countered by commercial payments to Moscow for oil and gas.
55% : The German economy ministry told Reuters that it welcomed EU efforts to phase out imports of Russian fossil fuels, but that SEFE was bound by a long-standing contract to buy LNG from Russia's Yamal plant with no option to terminate the agreement.
53% : Trump says U.S. oil and gas could replace lost Russian supplies, and many analysts say such a switch is possible, though it would boost Europe's dependency on U.S. energy in an era when Washington is using tariffs as a policy tool.
53% : "The EU has agreed to buy more energy from the U.S to accommodate the very strong U.S. demands to stop Russian imports," said Anne-Sophie Corbeau, a research scholar at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.
51% : The Dutch government said while it supported EU plans to phase out Russian energy, until these proposals are fixed into EU law, it was powerless to block existing contracts between European energy companies and Russian suppliers.
50% : "Europe has to step it up," Trump said.
45% : Belgium's energy ministry said the country's increase was down to separate EU sanctions that took effect in March and banned "transshipments", or re-exporting, of Russian LNG to outside the bloc, meaning arriving LNG had to be unloaded in Belgium - a global hub - rather than being transferred from ship to ship to be transported onwards to a final destination.
42% : TotalEnergies told Reuters it was continuing deliveries from Russia's Yamal plant under contracts that could not be suspended without official EU sanctions in place.
41% : They're buying oil and gas from Russia while they're fighting Russia.
40% : The EU, which has already barred most purchases of Russian crude oil and fuel, has announced plans to speed up a ban on Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) to 2027, from 2028.

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