In April, the Russian budget missed its 133.1 billion rubles (almost $2 billion) of oil and gas revenues, according to the Kremlin-controlled Finance Ministry..

“The total deviation of actually received oil and gas revenues from the expected monthly volume of oil and gas revenues and the estimate of the base monthly volume of oil and gas revenues from the base monthly volume of oil and gas revenues in April 2022 amounted to -133.1 billion rubles,” the Russian Ministry of Finance said in a report..

According to them, the budget should have received 798.4 billion rubles from the sale of oil and gas.. Russia lost more than $4.4 billion in oil and gas revenues in March.

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Earlier, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, suggested that the EU countries introduce a ban on the import of crude oil from Russia for six months, and oil products until the end of 2022..

According to her, the sixth package of European Union sanctions against Russia will be aimed at banks, including Sberbank and oil.

The issue of restricting energy exports from Russia has been actively discussed in the EU for several weeks. Read more about this in the article by Mikhail Gonchar \?