The ongoing crisis in the Middle East is allowing Russia to make more money out of oil and gas exports, analysts say. It's benefitting from the disruption of the global oil supply and the resulting higher energy prices, as well as from the easing of sanctions on Russian oil. According to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air think tank, a week after Israeli-US airstrikes on Iran started on 28th February, Russia's average daily fossil fuel export earnings have totalled an estimated 510m euros or £441m per day, 14% more than February's daily averaged. CREA's Vaibhav Raghunandan says the figure is only likely to rise, undoing the recent damage to Vladimir Putin's war economy caused by sanctions imposed over his invasion of Ukraine. "The longer this crisis continues, the better is is for Russia..It's a bit of a gut punch, for, I would say, Ukrainian support, simply because this is a huge huge oxygen boost for Russia," he said. Currently, oil and gas account for about a quarter of Russia's state revenue, according to CREA.
Спасибо, Дональд It's an ill wind..
Vitaly Shevchenko, chief analyst at #BBCMonitoring.
![Kian Sharifi [ex #BBCMonitoring]: Following that tense exchange at the White House,the account of Iran's supreme leader has reposted this tweet from 1 March 2022,about a week into Russia's invasion of Ukraine..Khamenei backed the invasion,telling Putin that Russia would've been attacked otherwise.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:44vryxuypemvgsck5xkhppf3/bafkreicrqnmuz5okts5g6vlqotjv3ysh7wrctssuarn7bo7j57qrh6pe4m)
