{"id":1394909,"date":"2026-05-19T13:28:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/billions-in-losses-how-sanctions-and-strikes-on-refineries-are-collapsing-russias-revenues\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:28:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:28:57","slug":"billions-in-losses-how-sanctions-and-strikes-on-refineries-are-collapsing-russias-revenues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/billions-in-losses-how-sanctions-and-strikes-on-refineries-are-collapsing-russias-revenues\/","title":{"rendered":"Billions in losses: how sanctions and strikes on refineries are collapsing Russia&#8217;s revenues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Since mid-May, the United States has reinstated sanctions against Russian oil, coinciding with large-scale attacks by Ukrainian drones on the enemy&#8217;s energy infrastructure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Oleg Pendzin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UfNBiJFZ4mQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spoke<\/a> about the economic consequences of these events on the air of &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221;, noting that the previous easing of restrictions by American partners is no longer valid due to the situation on the market.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Friendly Ukrainian drones have actually limited the ability of the Russian Federation to increase oil sales on the world market by 30 to 40%, according to various estimates. That is, thanks to Ukrainian drones that imposed their sanction restrictions, the total amount of additional funds that the Russian Federation did not receive is about $10 billion,&#8221; the program guest explained.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UfNBiJFZ4mQ<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/rebellion-in-the-kremlin-are-russians-capable-of-organized-resistance\/\">Rebellion in the Kremlin: Are Russians capable of organized resistance?<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> According to him, the Russian economy showed a 1.5% drop in gross domestic product in January-February. Although a slight increase was recorded in March due to high world prices for raw materials, the overall figure for the first quarter remained negative.<\/p>\n<p> Attacks on legitimate targets, such as oil refineries, are aimed at depleting the aggressor&#8217;s resources and forcing negotiations. Moreover, the situation may worsen for Moscow after traffic in the Strait of Hormuz stabilizes, which will lead to a decrease in world energy prices, Oleg Pendzin is convinced.<\/p>\n<p> Let us remind you <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-rosii-nazrivaie-nova-palyvna-kryza-cherez-defitsyt-benzynu\/\">that a new fuel crisis is intensifying in Russia<\/a> &#8211; the shortage of AI-95 gasoline is already going beyond the limits of stock market reports and is noticeably hitting the domestic market. According to industry analysts, unmet demand for AI-95 gasoline in the Russian Federation has already exceeded 26 thousand tons. The reasons were emergency and unscheduled repairs of oil refineries, a decrease in oil refining volumes, and a seasonal increase in demand.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-minoborony-pidtverdyly-udary-po-moskvi-ta-oblasti-iaki-tsili-urazyly\/\">strikes on a number of facilities in Moscow and the Moscow region<\/a> , including a refinery, an oil depot, and a microelectronics production facility. Previously, these facilities were protected by a huge number of air defense systems, but something strange happened, the military noted.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, the ability of Ukrainian drones to hit targets in a quarter of the territory of the Russian Federation is becoming a reality, covering regions inhabited by more than 140 million people. Although <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ataky-po-terytorii-rf-iaki-nastroi-panuiut-sered-hlybynnoho-narodu\/\">the psychological pressure on the enemy population is growing<\/a> , it has not yet led to a mass awareness of guilt.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since mid-May, the United States has reinstated sanctions against Russian oil, coinciding with large-scale attacks by Ukrainian drones on the enemy&#8217;s energy infrastructure. Oleg Pendzin spoke about the economic consequences of these events on the air of &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221;, noting that the previous easing of restrictions by American partners is no longer valid due to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1204343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76892,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1394909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}