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To spread: exports of diesel fuel from Russia has dropped to minimum rates since...

Record low in 5 years: Ukrainian drones have destroyed diesel exports from Russia - FT

To spread: exports of diesel fuel from Russia has dropped to minimum rates since 2020. The reason was the regular strikes of Ukrainian drones on oil refining infrastructure. About it reports Financial Times. Since the beginning of August, 16 of the 38 Russian refineries have been attacked, and some of the objects have been affected repeatedly. According to the Energy ASPECTS Research Group, capacity was disrupted, processing about 1 million oil barrels a day.

Experts call this campaign one of the most successful for Ukraine. "This is probably the most effective campaign that Ukraine was conducting," said Argus Benedict George. Russia remains the second exporter of diesel fuel in the world, much of which goes to Turkey. At the same time, unlike gasoline, Moscow does not yet limit the supply of diesel abroad: the production of diesel in the country exceeds domestic demand by more than 50%.

This fuel is actively used in both agriculture and military units, including tank troops. We will remind, regular blows of Ukrainian UAVs on oil and gas facilities in Russia deprives it of the main source of financing of war. Forbes wrote that through this society in the Russian Federation could be destabilized as on the eve of the February Revolution of 1917. Recently, Ukrainian UAVs attacked the Russian port of Primorsk, which stopped the load of fuel at the main Western oil terminal.