OilPrice.com by Irina Slav
A “real embargo” on Russian oil could end the war in Ukraine in a matter of months, the BBC has reported, citing a former chief economic adviser to President Putin.
According to Andrei Ilarionov, who resigned in 2005, if the West “would try to implement a real embargo on oil and gas exports from Russia… I would bet that probably within a month or two, Russian military operations in Ukraine, probably will be ceased, will be stopped”.
“It’s one of the very effective instruments still in the possession of the Western countries,” the former Kremlin official also said.
