Zelenskyy: Russia hides large-scale losses from the war, FISU received internal documents

Zelenskyy: Russia hides large-scale losses from the war, FISU received internal documents

"Our Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine has received new Russian documents assessing the losses of the aggressor country from the war. And it is important that this is precisely the Russian internal assessment, which they are trying to hide both from the world and from the internal Russian audience", - President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote about this.

"The first significant indicator is the reduction in active oil wells. Only one Russian oil company – and not the largest – has already been forced to close about 400 wells. Considering the specifics of Russian oil production, these are tangible losses, since restarting wells in Russia is much more difficult than in other oil-producing countries.

The second indicator is a reduction in oil refining by at least 10% in just a few months already this year. We see that our Ukrainian long-range sanctions are really working, and we will continue to ramp up this direction of our active actions. Data on the banking crisis in Russia also looks quite convincing, namely 11 financial institutions are preparing for full liquidation due to problems that cannot be solved in any other way, and another eight banking institutions have accumulated critical problems that cannot be covered without attracting external resources. Optimistic for us are also the indicators of the federal budget deficit this year, namely almost 80 billion dollars already in the fifth month of the year, and this against the background of the bankruptcy of a significant part of Russian regional budgets.

I also instructed the head of the FISU Oleh Luhovskyi to disseminate in a format that will not harm our sources the obtained information about Russia’s attempts to attract world companies to correct the crisis financial situation and schemes to circumvent sanctions. In particular, we have unfortunately recorded attempts to organize the export of grain from the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, as well as other economic exploitation of the peninsula with the participation of entities from the United States. We will inform our partners. We are also recording attempts to bring investments and technologies from democratic countries into Russian oil and gas Arctic projects. We know how to counteract. Thank you to everyone who helps! Thank you to all our Ukrainian intelligence officers!",   concluded Zelenskyy.