Russian oil. Russian gas. Total Energies. support for Ukraine

This was stated by Donald Trump during his State of the Union address: "Europe, unfortunately, has spent more money on buying Russian oil and gas than on defending Ukraine, much more. Think about it. We've spent maybe $350 billion. And they spent $100 billion. That's the difference". But this is just a repetition of russian propaganda.

It's true: Trump was apparently relying on a publication by the independent Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) entitled ‘In third year of invasion, EU fossil fuel imports exceed financial aid sent to Ukraine’. The article states that in 2024, the EU imported Russian oil and gas totalling about €21.9 billion, roughly the same as in the previous year, while EU financial assistance to Ukraine amounted to €18.7 billion.
First of all, let's pay attention to the elegance with which Trump substitutes concepts: the CREA publication refers to financial aid, excluding military and humanitarian aid. Meanwhile, in 2024, Germany alone allocated €7.1 billion for military aid to Ukraine, while France and the Netherlands allocated more than €2 billion. Trump has also significantly underestimated the total amount of EU aid to Ukraine: according to the European Commission, it amounted to €135 billion over the three years of the war.
But something else is even more important. According to oil and gas market analyst Mikhail Krutikhin, the estimate of russian energy imports includes oil products produced in Turkey and India. Both countries import crude oil from Russia, but not only from there. It is incorrect to consider this as russian oil; the blend from which these products are made includes a large share of oil from Azerbaijan and other countries.
This also includes the cost of liquefied natural gas shipped to the Yamal port of Sabetta. But it is russian only geographically, and belongs to the Yamal LNG international consortium, in which russia's Novatek holds a 50% stake, and the rest is owned by the French concern Total Energies and China's CNPC and Silk Road Fund. According to Krutikhin, russia has exempted this consortium from mineral extraction tax and export duties for 12 years, in fact, it has donated gas to the consortium, meaning that the money received for it from European consumers does not go to the russian budget.
Thus, in fact, the EU countries pay russia only for relatively small volumes of pipeline oil and gas supplied to Hungary and Slovakia.