According to the BBC's "How the West is helping Russia to fund its war on Ukraine", the West is pumping more dollars into Russian petroleum than to Ukraine aid, since the Russian invasion.
"Russian gas is still piped to Europe in increasing quantities via Turkey: CREA's data shows that its volume rose by 26.77% in January and February 2025 over the same period in 2024."
Just the NATO states: Russia $335B Ukraine $236B
EU states: Russia $233B Ukraine $73B
"CREA says it has identified three "laundromat refineries" in Turkey and three in India processing Russian crude and selling the resulting fuel on to sanctioning countries. It says they have used €6.1bn worth of Russian crude to make products for sanctioning countries."
For the world: "Since the start of that invasion in February 2022, Russia has made more than three times as much money by exporting hydrocarbons than Ukraine has received in aid allocated by its allies."
"Russian gas is still piped to Europe in increasing quantities via Turkey: CREA's data shows that its volume rose by 26.77% in January and February 2025 over the same period in 2024."
Just the NATO states: Russia $335B Ukraine $236B
EU states: Russia $233B Ukraine $73B
"CREA says it has identified three "laundromat refineries" in Turkey and three in India processing Russian crude and selling the resulting fuel on to sanctioning countries. It says they have used €6.1bn worth of Russian crude to make products for sanctioning countries."
For the world: "Since the start of that invasion in February 2022, Russia has made more than three times as much money by exporting hydrocarbons than Ukraine has received in aid allocated by its allies."
