Serhiy Vakulenko

Ukrainian footballer

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Russia is hurting, but the Middle East is worse, and China shut down,
In this race between the repairers and the attackers the balance is shifting,
  • said Sergey Vakulenko, who spent 25 years in the Russian oil and gas industry and is a senior fellow at the Berlin-based Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center think tank
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I believe that if push comes to shove, Russia could probably survive with half of its oil and gas exports,
The amount of gasoline available in Russia at the moment is determined by a race between Ukrainian drones and Russian repair teams. If the frequency of Ukrainian attacks can be maintained, and the damage from each attack increases, then the advantage swings toward Kyiv,
Without the UAE, OPEC will be much weaker; other major producers, Iran and Iraq, did not maintain any substantial spare capacity. It was mostly done by the UAE and Saudi Arabia,
Technically, Hungary could do without Russian oil and gas,

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Russia Set for Oil-Revenue Surge in Coming Weeks on Iran War

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While oil prices have come down since hitting a high on Sunday not seen since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, they remained high as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s busiest oil shipping channels, which is bordered to the north by Iran and crucial to the global energy supply, stayed at a virtual halt

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