🔥Russia is burning — not refineries, the state. Ukraine did this.

🧵1/8 🔥Russia is running out of cash: oil revenues plunge 20% in 2025, - FT

Sanctions & price drops slashed Russia's crude export income by 20% yoy, widening Urals discounts to $24 per barrel on average. This revenue hemorrhage, amid weak global markets, starves the war budget.

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🔥Ukraine didn’t just hit Russia’s army. It broke Russia’s economy.

🧵1/25 🔥Regions Bleed: half in red ink
43 of 83 regions ran deficits in first 10 months 2025—combined 161B ruble shortfall, first such widespread crisis in decade+. Tyumen (-51B), Komi (-49B), Kemerovo (-47B) worst hit; centralized war spending guts local budgets.

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🔥🛢️The Moscow Times: Urals < $40 — driven by Ukraine strikes — first time since 2020!

🧵1/10 🔥Urals price plunge hits hard
In Dec 2025, the average price of Urals oil fell to $39.18/barrel, marking a 13% drop from Nov & a staggering 41% decline since the yr's start, as global pressures mount on Russia's energy sector, underscoring the deepening economic isolation

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🔥🧨 The empire’s burning — again. Different century, same ending

https://twitter.com/tweet4Anna_NAFO/status/1978175215189295136

🔥Reuters: Russia’s refinery output down 15% after waves of Ukrainian drone strikes — the war economy’s engine is literally on fire.

Meanwhile, state TV says “everything’s fine.” Sure, comrade.

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