France and the EU continue to help Russia finance its war against Ukraine through gas and fertilizer purchases. According to an analysis by Friends of the Earth, while total Russian gas imports to the EU have decreased since 2021, imports of LNG and nitrogen fertilizers are on the rise. From 2021 to 2022, Russi... #France #RussianFertilizers #RussianGas #RussianLNG #RussiaProfits #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Another dependence on the Russian Federation appeared in the EU, which threatens food security. A flow of cheap Russian fertilizers could drive European producers out of business, threatening long-term global food security. In particular, 33% of urea imports, the cheapest form of nitrogen fertil... #GlobalFoodSecurity #RussianFertilizers #SanctionsAgainstRussia #SKWpiesteritz #YaraInternational
Europe has ended its dependence on Russian gas but is now hooked on Russian fertilizers. After the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Federation sharply reduced the supply of pipeline gas to the EU, in an attempt to put pressure on European governments. Instead, the EU began to build infras... #EnergyIndependence #EUenergy #LNG #RussianFertilizers #RussianGas #RussianTrade
Ukraine imported almost 398,000 tons of cheap fertilizers from Poland last year. What does Russia have to do with this? Ammonium nitrate, NPK fertilizers, and sulfates were most imported to Ukraine last year from Poland. As Group DF Holding, which is engaged in the production of fertilizers, reported, the import of Pol... #Fertilizer #FertilizerProductionUkraine #GroupDFholding #RussianFertilizers
The fertilizer market in Ukraine will change, and prices might increase in 2024. The fertilizer market in Ukraine will change radically following newly introduced customs inspections to determine the origin of imported goods and enforce the transition to domestic products. “Fertil... #CustomsInspections #Fertilizer #FertilizerProductionUkraine #RussianFertilizers
Russian and Belarusian mineral fertilizers worth UAH 100M were seized in a Ukrainian Seaport. The court seized a bulk shipment of mineral fertilizers of Russian and Belarusian production, with a total value of almost UAH 100M ($2.7M). The products were found in 170 wagons in the Mykolaiv seapo... #Belaruskali #DmytroFirtash #RussianFertilizers #Uralkali
The EU has excluded the supply of Russian fertilizers from the new sanctions package. As the WSJ writes, the agreement on the ninth package of sanctions was adopted following active lobbying on the issue of alleviating food security problems for the poorest countries by UN Secretary-Ge... #AntonioGuterres #RussianFertilizers #SanctionsAgainstRussia
EU countries cannot agree on the ninth package of sanctions because of Russian fertilizers. As of the morning of December 15, the EU countries have not agreed on the final parameters of the ninth package of sanctions against Russia, said the head of the European Council, Charles Michel. Acco... #CharlesMichel #EUsanctionsPackage #RussianFertilizers
