OREANDA-NEWS  Analysts at Refinitiv Eikon said that in the first half of the year, the volume of liquefied natural gas exports from Russia decreased by 9.4%, to 14.4 million tons, while supplies to Europe are at the level of nine million tons. This is reported by Reuters.

It is noted that the stable level of gas supplies to European countries is explained by the need of the European Union to compensate for the sharp reduction in gas imports from Russia. Because of this, European importers switched to LNG purchases.

Earlier it was reported that the increase in the supply of liquefied petroleum gases (LPG) from Russia to the Baltic states is more than doubled due to the fact that the buyer countries resell part of the Russian fuel to Ukraine. LPG is used as fuel for cars and heating. Anti-Russian sanctions do not apply to the supply of LPG, so the export of this type of fuel from Russia to European countries is carried out without restrictions.

According to Reuters, LPG purchases in Russia account for most of the imports of the Baltic countries. Latvia has this indicator at the level of 90% of imports, Lithuania - 50%. Lithuania buys the same amount of LPG from Latvia.

Earlier it became known how many conditions for joining the EU Ukraine fulfilled.