Although the EU is promoting diversification of supply sources and has passed a complete ban on Russian LNG from 2027, Russian gas still remains in the top 3 sources of supply to the EU in 2025.
According to data from Eurostat and calculations by TASS, the EU spent about 13.2 billion euros to buy gas from Russia in 2025, equivalent to 16.2% of total import value. Compared to 2024, this figure decreased by 13%, and market share also fell from 20.5% to 16.2%. However, Russia is still in the top 3 largest suppliers to the EU.
The US continues to lead with 29.6% market share, equivalent to 24.2 billion euros, mainly from liquefied natural gas (LNG). Algeria ranks second with 16.3% (13.3 billion euros), slightly higher than Russia. Followed by Norway and the UK.
A noteworthy development occurred in December 2025, when Russia unexpectedly rose to second place in the market share of gas supplies to the EU, reaching 19.4%, a sharp increase compared to 13.7% in the previous month.
In the last month of the year alone, the EU spent about 981 million euros to buy gas from Russia - the highest level since July 2025.
At the same time, the US market share decreased to 26.1%, while Algeria decreased to 15.6%. This shows that supply from Russia still plays a "regulating valve" role in times of high demand.
If considering liquefied natural gas (LNG) alone, Russia even ranked second in export value to the EU in 2025. The total value of LNG the EU purchased from Russia reached about 7.4 billion euros, accounting for 16.1% and only slightly decreased by 3% compared to the previous year.
The US still dominates in this segment with 52.5% market share, equivalent to 24.2 billion euros.
The figures are released in the context that the EU Council has approved a complete ban on Russian LNG since 2027. However, what happened in 2025 shows that Europe's energy supply restructuring process is still in a transitional phase and cannot be completely separated from gas from Moscow.
Between political goals and market reality, the EU's energy balance is therefore still an unknown problem.
