Buying Russian gas and oil has funded Putin’s war, says top EU official
by Daniel Boffey and Jennifer Rankin in Brussels from Environment | The Guardian on (#5WXW7)
Josep Borrell says bloc failed to act in past but must now cut dependence on supplies by two-thirds this year
Vladimir Putin is able to finance his war machine thanks to EU payments for Russian gas and oil, the bloc's foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, has said.
Speaking in the European parliament, the Spanish former foreign minister told MEPs that the west should have acted more quickly in the face of Russian aggression over the last decade.
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