WARSAW, April 28 (Reuters) - U.S. liquefied natural gas

supplies to Europe will continue to rise, U.S. Energy Secretary

Chris Wright told Reuters on Monday during a visit to the Polish

capital Warsaw.

The United States is the world's largest exporter of LNG and

has played a major role in supplying Europe since Russia's

full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 significantly reduced the

amount of Russian gas piped to Europe.

However, now that U.S. President Donald Trump has rocked

relations with Europe and turned to energy as a bargaining chip

in trade negotiations, businesses are wary that reliance on the

U.S. has become another vulnerability.

"The U.S. supply will continue to grow in a meaningful way.

There's a lot of dialogue about contracts," Wright told Reuters

on the sidelines of a conference. "I think we will absolutely

see more off-take agreements for LNG from the U.S. in Europe."

Amid the turmoil caused by Trump's tariff policies, some

executives in Europe have begun to say that importing some

Russian gas, including from Russian state giant Gazprom

, could be a good idea.

Wright declined to comment on the possibility of Russian

energy returning to Europe in greater volume.

"I think the energy situation in Europe is probably largely

going to be determined by Europeans," he said.

Poland has so far turned to seaborne LNG delivered to its

Swinoujscie LNG terminal to replace gas from Russia. It has also

started to receive pipeline gas from Norway via Denmark and the

Baltic Sea.

Poland has started delivering LNG sourced from the U.S. to

Ukraine.