Official figures show that the UK imported no fuel from Russia in June.
Russia's imports of goods fell to a record low of £33m in June.
Russia has been subject to strict sanctions by the western nations.
The UK plans to stop buying Russian oil and gas by the end of the year.
Russia's fuel imports fell by over half a billion dollars compared to the previous year.
According to the International Energy Agency, the UK imported 4% of its gas from Russia in 2011.
Sales of machinery and transport equipment to Russia were slashed by 91.3% by June.
The EU will cut gas imports from Russia by two-thirds by the end of the year and will ban all Russian oil imports by the end of the year.
The US has banned imports of Russian oil and gas.
The data doesn't include services where the UK has made large sums through consultants, accountants and lawyers in London.
It looks like sanctions have been effective when it comes to imports.
Normally we import about half a billion pounds of fuel from Russia, but in June we didn't import anything at all.
Prior to the war, Russia was a 4.9% supplier of gas to the UK.
Russian gas has largely been replaced with gas from other countries in the UK.
There is a mismatch between the effect of war on the supply of gas to the UK and the change in prices.
Market speculation on the potential disruptions to supply to Germany, Italy and other Russian-gas-addicted countries contributes to the fear built into the price of wholesale gas.
Our own gas supply is more reliable.
The danger is that when the price cap is re-set in October, millions of households will end up paying unnecessarily large bills which have a lot of irrelevant fear built into them.
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