{"id":28902,"date":"2026-07-24T14:09:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=28902"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:09:59","slug":"from-exporter-to-importer-russia-loses-35-of-refining-capacity-to-drone-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=28902","title":{"rendered":"From Exporter to Importer: Russia Loses 35% of Refining Capacity to Drone Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The petrostate illusion has officially shattered. Mid-way through summer 2026, continuous Ukrainian deep strikes have knocked out a staggering 35% of Russia&#8217;s total oil refining capacity. Forced to halt operations for long, multi-million dollar repairs, Moscow&#8217;s oil industry is entering an unprecedented structural crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The economic realities of the energy collapse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Export Lock: To cover surging domestic deficits, the Kremlin has completely banned fuel exports and taken the unthinkable step of importing gasoline from foreign countries like India and Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fiscal Meltdown: Federal budget revenues are eroding fast as tax revenues from foreign fuel sales vanish overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inevitable Inflation: Higher transport expenses are being shifted directly onto everyday goods. When fuel costs surge, the price tag on every single grocery item follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Decades of energy dominance undone in a matter of months<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The petrostate illusion has officially shattered. Mid-way through summer 2026, continuous Ukrainian deep strikes have knocked out a staggering 35% of Russia&#8217;s total oil refining capacity. Forced to halt operations for long, multi-million dollar repairs, Moscow&#8217;s oil industry is entering an unprecedented structural crisis. The economic realities of the energy collapse: The Export Lock: To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,55,1,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-politics","category-uncategorized","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28904,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28902\/revisions\/28904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}