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🔥🛢️ Russia's oil empire is crumbling under sanctions & unprecedented drone attacks.

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🔥Ukraine’s drone campaign has hit Moscow where it hurts most: the economy.

Fuel shortages are spiralling, prices are soaring, and ordinary Russians are paying the price.

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🔥Oil shipments suspended: SBU drones hit a key Russian export hub — the port of Primorsk

On September 12, Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's northwestern port of Primorsk has for the first time forced the suspension of loadings at its key western oil terminal.

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🔥Ukraine struck the largest Russian oil-loading port on the Baltic Sea, which is the terminal point of the Baltic pipeline system. Primorsk is a key hub for loading the "shadow fleet," which Russia uses to bypass international sanctions and sell oil on foreign markets.

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🔥The port of Ust-Luga was also damaged. In official comments, Russian authorities are silent on the scale of the destruction, but according to sources, Transneft is already restricting companies' access to oil storage facilities in its system.

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🔥Two ports that supply Moscow's secret fleet have been hit. This means that there are dozens of tankers in the Baltic Sea bay waiting to be resupplied.

About 60 million tons of oil pass through the Primorsk port annually, bringing Russia approximately $15 billion.

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🔥Ukrainians are not waiting for Trump's sanctions, which will never come. The strikes continue without giving the Russians the opportunity to repair the refineries and are striking at increasingly deeper distances into Russia.

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🔥 There are about 40 large refineries in Russia, 13 would be severely damaged and these 13 alone produce 40% of the petroleum derivatives in Russia and that means that it has gone down to 20% SARATOV.

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🔥Russian refineries are vulnerable even at a distance of 1400 km from the border w/ Ukraine

Drones attacked the "Gazprom Neftekhim" complex in Salavat, in Russia's Bashkortost. It produces gasoline, diesel fuel, and other products and is one of the largest in Russia.

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🔥Sept 17: the Volgograd oil refinery involved in supplying the needs of the Russian Army was hit.

It is the largest producer of petroleum products in the Southern Federal District of Russia.

Processing volume: 15.7M tons.

Preliminary: refinery's operation has been halted

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🔥Russian oil transport is also in difficulty. Earlier, Goldman Sachs reported that due to attacks, Russian oil refineries have reduced oil processing volumes, resulting in oil storage facilities becoming overloaded.

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🔥Unlike other countries like Saudi Arabia, the Russians have limited storage capacity. In recent days, "Transneft", which accounts for more than 80% of all oil produced in Russia, has also limited the ability of oil companies to store oil in its pipeline system.

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🔥Gaz prices up by more than 30℅ . 
According to Russian official statistics, gas is now at an average of $2.66 per gallon, but the real figure for the average is undoubtedly much higher because gas is getting harder to find.

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🔥Resellers and supply disruptions.

Amid the shortage, resellers are raising their prices: a liter of gasoline is reaching 200 rubles (>3 times the market price). Severe shortages are being recorded in the Far East, where fuel is being diverted to Russia's western regions.

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🔥While Russia struggles to patch up its oil refineries : Gazprom Neft has postponed the start of scheduled maintenance at its Omsk Oil Refinery as part of government measures aimed at stabilizing the fuel market. This was reported by Gazprom Neft CEO Alexander Dyukov

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🔥Ukraine's oil refinery takeover tactic is working: Russian drivers complain of a "nightmare" at gas stations.

Money, people but also oil are the sinews of war to maintain Russian society and the Russian army in Ukraine.

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🔥⛽ Already 20 regions without gasoline: Transbaikalia, Crimea, Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Penza, Rostov and Astrakhan regions, Kalmykia, Tatarstan, Amur, Magadan, Sakhalin regions, Khabarovsk Krai, Yakutia, the Jewish Autonomous Region & Chukotka.

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🔥Moreover, the crisis hasn't only affected frontline regions. Russian media published a map showing gasoline shortages in the country's most remote areas, including the Far East. An expert attributes this to either panic buying or the massive diverting of fuel to the West.

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🔥The gasoline collapse is reaching Moscow !

Reuters reports a "very bad" situation in Russia. Following Ukrainian drone strikes on key Russian oil refineries, the gasoline shortage is spreading across the country and reaching central regions, including Moscow.

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🔥The authorities try to minimize the problem: postponing repairs at refineries & limiting fuel exports. But for a country that once boasted its status as an "energy superpower," the gasoline shortage looks like an indicator of systemic collapse

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🔥Russia’s oil export revenues collapse by almost $1 billion!

Over the past decade, the oil & gas sector has generated between a third and a half of Russia's budget revenues, Russia's primary source of funding

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🔥Russia’s revenues from oil and gas are expected to plunge in September by 23% from a year earlier, as international crude prices have declined and the Russian currency has strengthened, calculations by Reuters showed on Thursday.

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🔥Ukraine's strikes directly impact the Kremlin's long-term ability to finance its war against Ukraine. According to the latest estimates, Ukraine has reduced the country's refining capacity by almost a fifth.



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🔥If refining capacity drops to 40-50%, the Kremlin will be forced to prioritize military personnel over civilians. This is already happening, as Russia is already announcing a tax increase even though a large proportion of Russians are struggling.

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🔥 While Russia is already suffering from a fuel crisis, with soaring prices and dwindling reserves, President Zelensky announces the continuation of Ukrainian airstrikes and increased pressure.

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