Greenpeace Belgium report explains how Europe’s reluctance to phase out its dependency on Russian LNG is helping fuel Putin’s war

The weaponry Putin can buy with Russia’s LNG exports

With the estimated $9.5 billion in profit tax revenues from Yamal LNG exports (including LNG exports to Europe and Asia) between 2022 and 2024, the Russian state could fund roughly one of the following: a. 9.5 million 152 mm artillery shells (equivalent to roughly three years of Russia’s current annual production output of 3 million rounds) b. 271,000 Shahed-type attack drones (in March 2025, an estimated 1000 Shahed drones were used to attack Ukraine each week) c. 2,686 T-90M battle tanks (enough to replace two-thirds of Russia’s 4113 visually confirmed tank losses in Ukraine since 2022)

https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-belgium-stateless/2025/09/0c135a20-greenpeace-belgium_ru-us-lng-trap.pdf