Greenpeace Belgium report: Europe’s reluctance to phase out 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