{"id":1160705,"date":"2025-06-02T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1160705"},"modified":"2025-06-01T17:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:15:34","slug":"kremlin-trying-to-keep-economy-running-through-lies-remaining-reserves-foreign-intelligence-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/kremlin-trying-to-keep-economy-running-through-lies-remaining-reserves-foreign-intelligence-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin trying to keep economy running through lies, remaining reserves \u2013 Foreign Intelligence Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian government is struggling to keep their economy going by relying on lies and the remainder of national reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was reported by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/szru.gov.ua\/en\/news-media\/analitics\/the-kremlin-is-trying-to-keep-the-economy-alive-with-lies-and-remaining-reserves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-economy\/3999169-kremlin-trying-to-keep-economy-running-through-lies-remaining-reserves-foreign-intelligence-service.html\">Ukrinform saw.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe degradation of the russian economy is deepening against the background of a protracted war against Ukraine and multi-level Western sanctions. The kremlin\u2019s key stabilization tool \u2013 the national wealth fund (nwf) \u2013 is undergoing a systemic reduction,\u201d the intelligence agency noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus, according to the FISU, \u201cas of early July 2022, the liquid part of the nwf has reached $145 billion. A year on, in July 2023, that number decreased to $78 billion. As of May 1, 2025, the reserves amounted to only $39 billion. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the decline has almost quadrupled\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fund\u2019s main source of revenue (oil exports) remains under pressure. Western sanctions have limited Russia\u2019s access to traditional markets, while alternative supply routes are proving less efficient and more costly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The average price of Brent crude oil is expected to reach $64 per barrel in 2025 and $60 in 2026. For Russia, whose budget depends on hydrocarbon revenues, such dynamics pose critical fiscal risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Problems are already evident in key sectors. For example, projects by the Rosatom Corporation, scheduled for 2025, remain underfunded by 80%, Russian Railways are seeing a decline in transportation volumes, and production in the mining, metallurgical, and construction sectors is on decline, the intelligence agency wrote. Also, Russian corporations are massively suspending dividend payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll of this indicates large-scale budget constraints and a loss of financial maneuverability, even in strategic industries,\u201d the FISU noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite this, Moscow keeps trying to illuminate confidence as regards economic stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, state-controlled propaganda, which conceals the actual scale of the economic downturn, does not change facts: the resource-based model of the Russian economy is losing efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf the current restrictions and additional measures are maintained \u2013 in particular, strengthening control over the circumvention of oil sanctions \u2013 Russia risks losing the last remnants of its financial cushion as early as 2026,\u201d the intelligence service emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As previously reported, the Russia\u2019s special envoy for economic cooperation with foreign states, Kirill Dmitriev, is trying to defreeze Russian assets in foreign jurisdictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/ukraine-peace-proposal-russia-stalling-talks\/\">Ukraine Sends Clear Peace Terms, Russia Delays Talks by Withholding Its Proposal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian government is struggling to keep their economy going by relying &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1160706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36415,53,36422,50],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1160705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en","category-russia-en","category-11473-news-en-3","category-svit-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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