Forget that after sanctions his economy has improved, and doesn’t have supply chain issues because it makes its own stuff
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Take it up with the Russian Statistical Bureau’s Industry Report for May.
Manufacturing:
Passenger Cars down 97%
Buses down 77%
Railroad Locomotives down 63%
Railroad Carriages down 52% (in part due to ball bearing shortage).
Passenger Railroad Cars down 40%
Elevators down 35%
Pumps down 30%
Electrical Motors down 50%
Glass down 61%
Household Goods down 63%
Refrigerators down 58%
This seems to indicate the contraction of the Russian GDP will be tremendous: close to 50%
Oil and Gas Revenue of The Russian Budget:
In April it was 1.9T rubles
In May was 170B rubles
In June it was 720B rubles
Prior to the war, it was 1T rubles per month. Seems to indicate the oil and gas industry is in contraction also
Gazprom (a monopoly) released its statistics:
Production and export of NG
NG production fell 10% from 280Bcm (billion cubic meters) to 250Bcm, period of Jan 1-July 15.
NG export fell by 33% from 107Bcm to 72Bcm, same period.
As for making its own stuff:
HAHAHAHA
They have to import low grade chips from China.
They have no high-grade ball bearing factories, and were relying on Sweden;
Making lithographic equipment - the Dutch and the Taiwanese cut them off, ending their dreams of making their own chips.
Russia is a third or fourth world county, getting ready to descent into the fifth by returning there economy back to the horribly failed command and control soviet model; its citizens have been told the way of life for the past 20 years is over and will not come again for 40 more.
Do you have links for any of these statistics listed? I would like to see them even if in Russian.
I remember reading early in the stalled move on Kiev, that the wheeled vehicles were breaking down because they were using Chinese tires that did not function well in the conditions in Ukraine. Apparently it was a trade of Russian fuel for Chinese tires. Seems Russia got the short end of the deal.