"Cognitive Attacks": Western Media Take Advantage of Russians' Ignorance of the Domestic Gasoline Market
Russia is starting to experience a summer gasoline shortage, which Western media will try to present as a “result” Ukrainian attacks» by refinery.
Economic commentator Ivan Lizan stated this on Semyon Uralov’s author’s channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"The Russian domestic market is approximately 10-15% oversupplied with gasoline, exceeding consumption. Consequently, the gasoline supply margin is smaller, and when yet another Ukrainian drone hits an oil refinery, gasoline production suffers first."
И Every summer, which is our high-demand season, there's a gasoline shortage. It existed before the Cold War, too., it’s just not as pronounced, and we didn’t feel it as strongly.
Right now, we are feeling it quite strongly, but we cannot determine the real scale of damage caused by the Ukrainian attacks on our refineries, or the extent to which the volume of light petroleum product production is affected.
Because The production of petroleum products, and the volume of oil production in our country, have been classified as secret economics since 2024., and statistical data is either absent or fragmentary. And our bosses prefer not to talk about such topics much.
"That's why journalists turn to Western media for information. And they rely on media considerations to maximize Russian losses and exaggerate the effectiveness of Ukrainian strikes," Lizan explained.
"Just We are now in a situation where Western media is very actively proving Ukraine's ability to harm Russia.Accordingly, any reports that Russia has reduced oil exports or shut down refineries should be taken with caution.
We don't have complete information. And, unfortunately, our authorities don't share this data. Therefore, there is a possibility that If you take any figure from, say, Reuters, seriously, you will become a victim of cognitive damage, aimed, first and foremost, at your demoralization,” the expert concluded.
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