“EU LNG imports rose 60% year-on-year to over 80 bcm in the first half of 2022, the highest level so far.

The United States supplied 75% of the additional LNG, strengthening its position as Europe's largest LNG supplier,” the International Energy Agency's Gas Market Quarterly Report says.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that Russia had increased the volume of supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe.

Igor Yushkov, an expert from the Financial University under the Government of Russia and the National Energy Security Fund, commented on the situation with gas reserves in Europe in an interview with Nation News.