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Just two of these refineries process 30 million tons of oil annually, independent journalist Natalia Kabash wrote in a column for NV Business on Feb. 23. These are Slavneft-YANOS in Yaroslavl and the Volgograd refinery operated by industry giant Lukoil. For comparison, Ukraine imported 1.5 million tons of crude oil for domestic processing in pre-war 2021. Read also: Russia pivots to new markets: who’s buying? “Ukrainian drones worth several million hryvnias travel hundreds of kilometers deep into Russia and cause damage worth hundreds of millions of dollars,” Kabash said. “That’s how much it w…

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