US EditionBnd: Numbers Beautified: Russia Should Be Worse Off than Expected
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Russia subordinates everything else to the war against Ukraine - including the economic future. The German foreign intelligence service believes in serious consequences over years. At present, however, it is not only bad for Moscow.
Russia is distorting economic data to hide the real impact of the war. For example, its state deficit is a quarter higher than what officials officially declare. This information was published on Wednesday by the German secret service BND.
According to the German Federal Intelligence Service, Russia embellishes the economic consequences of its war of aggression against Ukraine. According to the secret service, the situation of the economy and the state budget is much worse than officially presented.
The German foreign intelligence agency, the BND, reveals that Russia's actual federal budget deficit in 2025 was significantly higher than officially reported. Berlin argues that Moscow is manipulating the data to conceal the scale of its spending on the war against Ukraine.
In the fifth year of the war against Ukraine, almost all sectors of the Russian economy had a negative development, it continues. In addition to significantly lower oil and gas revenues due to the sharp fall in world market prices since 2022, this would also be due to Western sanctions. The costs of the war would be accepted by the Russian leadership and will continue to work for years. "With the concealment of the economic damage, the investmen…
"The viability of the Russian economy is declining further," says German intelligence service
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