
Despite a German de facto ban on accepting LNG directly from Russia, Germany has been importing surging volumes of natural gas from France and Belgium where terminals continue to accept Russian LNG, according to a report by NGOs from Germany, Belgium, and Ukraine. Germany’s state-controlled firm Securing Energy for Europe (Sefe), created in 2022 after Germany saved a former Gazprom unit it had expropriated, bought as many as 58 LNG cargoes from Russia via the Dunkirk terminal in France in 2024 alone, per the report cited in the Financial…