Putin's €93bn Fossil Fuel Bonanza: Russia's wartime income revealed by new data

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Putin's €93bn Fossil Fuel Bonanza: Russia's wartime income revealed by new data

Tracking by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air shows how high price of oil and gas has shielded the Russian economy even as sanctions have led to a fall in export volumes

The scale to which fossil fuel revenue is bankrolling Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine has been exposed thanks to detailed tracking of Russian oil, gas, and coal shipments and pipeline exports by the...

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