Moscow called an EU-US trade deal ‘anti-Russian’ as the US formally took over its former energy market.

The EU is expected to increase its purchases of US energy under a wider trade deal even if the headline pledge looks insurmountable.

The EU has pledged to buy $750 billion of energy from the U.S. in exchange for a lower rate tariff rate in its trade deal, but analysts say this is unrealistic.

Moscow called an EU-US trade deal ‘anti-Russian’ as the US formally took over its former energy market.

As part of the trade agreement between the European Union and the US, Europe committed to making strategic purchases across the Atlantic worth $750 billion (about €650 billion),…