[Russian Energy Minister: the West has never stopped buying Russian energy products]-since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine broke out, Western countries have imposed several rounds of sanctions on Russia, including imposing a ban on Russian oil in the energy field, setting price caps, and so on. But in a program on Russian Television 1 on May 28, Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shuliginov said that the West never stopped buying Russian energy products, but instead adopted "flexible methods" to do so. In March this year, there were media reports that some EU countries had been actively buying Russian liquefied natural gas. Spain ranked first among the countries that bought Russian LNG at the beginning of 2023. Spain is the largest importer of Russian fossil fuels from January 1 to March 9 this year, followed by Belgium and Bulgaria.