Russia’s oil exports dropped last year but the country is still exporting higher volumes than before its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, researchers have said, calling for stricter sanctions enforcement. The volume of Russian crude oil exports remained 6% above pre-invasion levels in the fourth year of the war, despite western sanctions aimed at curbing Russia’s “shadow fleet” used to circumvent western sanctions, according to a report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (Crea), a Finnish thinktank. But oil revenues – which are fuelling Moscow’s war chest – have dropped below pre-invasion levels, as
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