Ursula von der Leyen admitted that the European Union paid another 100 billion euros in 2026 for gas imports.
According to the Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Dmitri Birichevsky, who expressed himself in an interview with the TASS agency, the members of the European Union themselves, despite reduced supply volumes, continue to make purchases from Russia and as of 2022 have paid 320 billion dollars for local energy raw materials.
At the same time, according to the admission of the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, since the beginning of 2026, the European Union has paid an excess amount of 100 billion euros for its total gas imports compared to 2025.