Russian Oil Shipments Climb 6% Above Pre-2022 Invasion Levels

Russia is exporting crude oil at rates higher than before its 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the barrage of Western sanctions that followed it, many targeting specifically the oil industry. Four years after those events, Russia is exporting oil at 6% higher levels than before that, Finland-based think tank Centre for Research on Clean Air said in a report, as cited by AFP. “We've seen a significant drop in Russian fossil fuel export earnings as a result of new measures and greater enforcement,” one of the authors of the report, analyst…