It increases the great paradox of this international historical moment.

The European Union punishes Russia with sanctions, but, at the same time, increasingly finances the war indirectly through imports of a star product from Moscow: energy.

The EU not only does not include gas and oil among its sanctions, but has intensified the purchase of energy from Russia in recent days for a value of some 800 million per day.

This booty is being the counterpoint to the hardships of the Vladimir Putin regime to finance the war in Ukraine.

All its gas pipelines through which it exports gas to the EU continue to operate, including the one that crosses Ukraine

, as confirmed by all of them.

The German Minister of Finance,

Christian Lindner

, has reaffirmed the German refusal to do without Russian energy: “

We must take into account what means more harm to Putin and what can harm us more”

.

Germany's dependence on Russian gas accounts for about 40%.

“As long as it is legally possible, the acquisition of gas and oil from Russia is normal, because it largely responds to long-term contracts already signed and, otherwise,

not only the Russian state companies would keep the merchandise but they would demand compensation.

», justify this newspaper in the energy industry.

Gazprom assures that it operates normally and even increasingly in its supplies to Germany, Slovakia and Poland, among other EU countries.

The community club as a whole disburses the aforementioned 800 million euros a day for this, European Commissioner

Thierry Bréton told

France Info

this weekend

, who urged "getting rid of this dependency."

At the moment, it is even increasing, because the increase in purchases is being felt specifically in the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline, which crosses Belarus and Poland, with flows to Germany at the Mallnow border point amounting to 8.6 million kilowatts. / hour, above last week consistently since March 8.

According to the Russian state giant Gazprom, the NordStream 1 gas pipeline with Germany is also working at a growing rate above 70 million kWh.

The situation of the gas pipeline that crosses Ukraine is particularly unusual.

It will continue to function as long as there is no damage, a spokesman for Ukraine's state-owned energy company Naftogaz told Reuters on Monday.

Some 41.6 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Russian gas were transported through Ukraine to Europe in 2021. This is, for example, four times more than what is transferred from Algeria to Spain through the so-called Medgaz pipeline.

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