Last week, against Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoilas well as against more than thirty of its subsidiaries. This is a notable fact, since they are the first sanctions against Russia approved by Donald Trump’s administration.
“The pillars of Russian energy policy are officially in the crosshairs of the US Treasury Department. I hope that the sanctions are short-term, because I hope that “stated the American president.
For their part, the leaders of the European Union They have also approved in recent days the . The objective of the measures is to weaken the Russian economy and make maintaining the war in Ukraine impossible for Vladimir Putin.
In that sense, Vladimir Milov, former Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation and economisthas granted an interview to the Lithuanian media in which he predicted that Russia is very close to ending the armed conflict which has been taking place on Ukrainian territory for more than three and a half years.
“Is it worth trying another ‘summer offensive’which obviously will not be more successful and whose costs will be enormous? It’s no secret that Russia can no longer afford it. We don’t know what Vladimir Putin will do, it is unpredictable, but the conclusions are obvious: it is not working and it must stop. “I think the limit has already been reached to decide that there is no way to continue the war,” the expert said.
For these reasons, Milov has pointed out that “Russia is practically on the verge of deciding to end the war”. The economist has argued this statement by highlighting that “There is enormous tension, even in the defense sectorwhich is clearly in crisis: there are no profits, companies can barely keep up and there is no liquidity. “As you can see, rebuilding the economy on a military basis gives practically no results.”
