Perfectly legit

 

- Yes, Russian LNG. A thriving bizniz!

The headline is borderline fake news, since "financial" aid isn´t the same thing as military or humanitarian aid, something the article admits in the fine print. So presumably the EU does *not* spend more on Russian fossil fuels than on aid to Ukraine (the article never specifies the total figure for aid to the embattled country). 

That being said, it *is* interesting that the EU still buys Russian oil and gas. That raises a lot of questions...and raised eyebrows. In the beginning of the conflict, the EU declared that the Russian oil and gas would be replaced by LNG (liquefied natural gas). And guess what? It has...with *Russian* LNG, to be exact. Last year, Russia was the second exporter of LNG to the European Union?! 

Small wonder Moscow is laughing at us. So the tough guys in the EU bureaucracy replaced Russian fossil fuels with...other Russian fossil fuels. How long before a brave investigative reporter starts asking awkward questions about, say, price-fixing or license-fixing? 

Or are we supposed to believe that this is all perfectly legit?

The EU spends more on Russian oil and gas than on financial aid to Ukraine