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Who buys Russian oil, gas and fuel

Where Russia's fossil-fuel money actually comes from — realised purchases by country — and a tracker of announced refusals against the real flow.

Confirmed buyers

CREA snapshot · window 2026-10-07–2026-11-06 · CREA

crude oilpipeline oiloil productspipeline gasLNGcoal
China9400 M EUR
crude oil 3470 · pipeline oil 2539 · LNG 1044 · pipeline gas 951 · coal 714 · oil products 682
India4639 M EUR
crude oil 3866 · oil products 420 · coal 352
Türkiye939 M EUR
pipeline gas 355 · oil products 230 · crude oil 191 · coal 163
Hungary579 M EUR
pipeline gas 460 · pipeline oil 119
Slovakia521 M EUR
pipeline gas 286 · pipeline oil 235
South Korea419 M EUR
LNG 223 · coal 195 · oil products 1

Monthly CREA country snapshot. The live weekly export-revenue aggregate is on the home page — different window and method, so the totals won't match to the euro.


Announced refusals — delivery tracker

Announced, not confirmed by the flow

EU (27)not down
End all Russian gas imports: LNG by end-2026, pipeline gas by 30 Sep 2027 (RePowerEU)
Announced: 2026-01-26 · Target: 2026-12 / 2027-09-30
Reality (CREA): Hungary and Slovakia remain the bloc's top Russian-gas buyers; combined EU pipeline-gas/LNG volume not yet reduced. ↗
Hungary + Slovakiaunchanged
Reject the EU ban and keep Russian pipeline oil and gas under the 2022 landlocked exemption; challenging it at the EU Court of Justice
Announced: 2026-01-26 · Target: no phase-out before end-2027
Reality (CREA): Per CREA Aug–Sep 2026, both still buying: Hungary ~391M EUR gas + 39M pipeline oil; Slovakia ~215M pipeline oil + 153M gas. ↗
Indianot down
Signalled it will cut direct Russian crude imports from December under US tariff/sanctions pressure
Announced: 2026-09 · Target: from 2026-12
Reality (CREA): Still Russia's #2 buyer — ~3.1B EUR crude in the snapshot, roughly 30% of India's crude imports; refiners booked Sep–Oct Russian cargoes. ↗
Note. Values of manual indicators are the authors' expert estimates from the listed open sources, not measured figures; weights and scale calibration are subjective and open to revision. Automated market series come from public APIs. A prototype, not investment or political advice.
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