More than three and a half years on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe is still grappling with its energy security by diversifying its oil and gas imports away from Moscow and toward other markets. While progress has been made, it has often been a case of two steps forward and one step back. For years leading up to 2022, Europe enjoyed relatively easy access to cheap Russian oil and gas. Russia was happy to sell to Europe. Moscow needed the money and knew that doing so gave it leverage in any bargaining or negotiations with Brussels.

The Russian leader pointed out that supply chains on the global gas market were also changing for objective reasons

More than three and a half years on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe is still grappling with its energy security by diversifying its oil and gas imports away from Moscow…

BRUSSELS: EU countries on Monday agreed to phase out their remaining gas imports from Russia by the end of 2027, breaking a dependency the bloc has struggled to end despite…