Payments to Russia for fossil fuels
since 24 February 2022
The Russia Fossil Tracker is a project led by CREA to highlight Russia’s fossil fuel revenues that enable their invasion of Ukraine. It also tracks the changes in Russian fossil fuel flows over time. To gain more insight into how this is done, please refer to the methodology.
You can find CREA’s reports on Russian fossil fuel exports, the looming threat they pose to energy security, and the effect of current sanctions, through CREA’s Financing Putin’s War project.
According to our estimates, since the beginning of the war, Russia earned EUR — billion in revenue from fossil fuel exports. European Union countries purchased for more than EUR — billion of these exports.
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Notice 29th September 2025. We have updated our definition of G7+ in relation to the Price Cap Coalition to include UK overseas territories; this has not significantly changed any of the findings on our Russia fossil shipment tracker or sanctions tracker.
We have also updated the language used to describe our methodology in the sections Pipeline Turkiye flows, to align the spelling of Turkiye with the rest of our publications, and Pricing, to improve readability and to clarify that the pricing methodology applies from 2022 onward (not only in 2022).
See our methodology page for previous updates.
The European Union imports of Russian fossil fuels have steadily declined since the embargo on Russian crude oil and refined products imports — in December 2022 and February 2023, respectively. Some countries were provided derogations to import Russian crude via the Druzhba pipeline. As of September 2025, only two EU countries — Hungary & Slovakia — have continued to import Russian oil. Russian gas remains unsanctioned.
Oil (including crude oil and oil products) and fossil gas (either pipelined gas or LNG shipments) represent the vast majority of this revenue, as shown in the chart below.
For details on our methodology, please refer to our Russia Fossil Tracker’s methodology page.