Russia’s export income fell by 90 percent, despite the fact that the European Union countries alone imported nearly $20 billion in gas and oil from the superpower. napi. hu Based on data from Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).
Hungary and Slovakia are at the forefront of imports. The two countries have bought nearly $2 million worth of Russian oil and gas in the past six months. Slovakia was the largest importer within the union in the first half of the year, with a value of more than $2 billion, of which just over half was oil.
Hungary was not far from Slovakia: we bought 1.9 billion dollars from the Russians.
The reason for the difference between the two countries is that we spent more than half of the amount on gas, while Slovakia bought more oil from the Russians.
Spain and Belgium were the union’s most important buyers, spending the most on gas. China is the largest importer in the first half of this year
By June 16 of this year, I had paid the Russians $30 billion for fossil energy carriers.
In general, it can be said that Russia has not been able to make up for its losses in Europe, mostly in the case of gas. Thus, even reduced European exports appear to be significant within total Russian exports.
If EU buyers do not continue to increase their natural gas imports, Russia’s last option would be China, but it is suspected that the Far Eastern superpower could buy from the Russians a little cheaper.
