Payments to Russia for fossil fuels
since 24 February 2022
This Russia Fossil Tracker is a project led by CREA to bring light to details of energy exports from Russia and how they changed after the invasion of Ukraine. We do that by tracking detailed ship movements and pipeline flows in as much detail as possible. Read more about our methodology page for more details.
According to our estimates, since the beginning of the war, Russia earned EUR — billion in revenue from fossil fuel exports. European Union countries purchased for more than EUR — billion.
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Notice 6th June 2024. We no longer track LPG exports from Russia and have removed the historical data from our charts and data. Out of Russia’s total fossil fuel exports, LPG exports make up a very small proportion. We made this decision as we would like to prioritise other areas that have more impact. We have removed the historical LPG data so we don’t mislead readers with partial data.
See our methodology page for previous updates.
The European Union imports of Russian fossil fuels have steadily declined since the end of March, being more than halved in monetary values compared to pre-invasion levels. Whilst the EU remains the largest importer of Russian fossil fuels, it is now only marginally superior to China.
Oil (including crude oil and oil products) and fossil gas (either pipelined gas or LNG shipments) represent the vast majority of this revenue, as shown in the chart below.