European Union member states imported Russian energy worth $320.7 billion from 2022 onward, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Monday, adding that supplies continued during the first nine months of 2026. The figure covers energy supplied to EU countries over the period following Moscow’s attack on Ukraine, after which sanctions were imposed on Russia. Novak’s statement, reported by Ratopati and Khabarhub, describes the total value of supplies but does not provide a breakdown by energy type, EU member state or individual year.
Novak’s account of continuing supplies
The $320.7 billion figure was presented by Novak as the value of Russian energy supplied to EU countries since 2022. He also said deliveries had continued in the first nine months of 2026. The statement therefore points to energy trade between Russia and the bloc persisting during the period when sanctions were in force, although it does not specify which products accounted for the reported value or how the total was calculated.
The reported figure is a cumulative value, not a volume of energy. Without details on quantities, prices or the mix of products, it cannot show how much energy was delivered in physical terms, or whether the value of supplies changed from one year to another. Novak’s comments, as summarized in the reports, also do not identify which EU countries received the supplies or how much each member state imported.
Sanctions and the reported total
The imports took place after Russia’s attack on Ukraine prompted sanctions against Moscow. The scale described by Novak puts the continuing energy trade alongside those sanctions, but the available account does not explain how particular deliveries were treated under the restrictions or whether any exemptions or other arrangements applied. It also does not set out which measures were relevant to the energy supplies included in the total.
That distinction matters when interpreting the headline figure. The $320.7 billion total is Novak’s reported estimate of energy supplied to EU countries; it is not, on the information provided, a detailed audit of imports or a country-by-country assessment. The statement does not give a methodology, underlying trade data or an independent verification of the amount. It should therefore be attributed to the Russian deputy prime minister rather than presented as a separately confirmed accounting of every transaction.
What the figure does - and does not - show
Novak’s remarks offer a broad measure of the value of Russian energy supplied to the EU since 2022 and indicate that, according to him, deliveries continued into 2026. They do not establish the composition of those supplies, the share of EU energy needs they represented, or how trade changed over the period. No figures for individual years are included in the available reports, so the reported cumulative total cannot be used to identify trends in annual imports.
The claim also leaves unanswered how the first-nine-months-of-2026 supplies contributed to the overall $320.7 billion figure. Novak’s statement, as reported, does not give a separate value for that period or clarify the calculation’s endpoint. Further detail on product categories, import volumes, national destinations and the methodology would be needed to assess the total more fully. For now, the central point in his account is that Russian energy worth $320.7 billion was supplied to EU member states from 2022 onward, and that deliveries continued during the period he identified in 2026.
