Spain's gas imports fall 20% in June from year ago, less Russian gas

Aug 17 (Reuters) - Spain's natural gas imports fell 20% in June from a year ago to an equivalent of 28,622 gigawatt-hours, government data showed on Thursday.

Cores, an arm of the Energy and Environment Ministry, said in a statement Russia was the largest single supplier of gas to Spain with a share of 27% in June, even as imports from Russia fell 12.3% to 7,673 GWh.

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In the first half of the year, supplies from Russia still jumped 71% from a year earlier, but Algeria was the leading source of Spanish gas imports.

(Reporting by Tiago Brandao, editing by Andrei Khalip)