Gas Paradox: Finland Continues to Buy Russian LNG Despite Promises to Throttle Supplies

While Finland was a keen supporter of the EU's anti-Russian sanctions, intended as “punishment” for Moscow's special operation in Ukraine, its own economy suffered a heavy blowback amid Europe's ballooning energy and cost-of-living crises. Finnish Prime Minister Marin even went so far as to say that the nation was living in a “wartime economy.”