拉脱维亚的一项新分析显示,制裁迫使俄罗斯在购买商品时额外支出了1300亿美元。报告称,如果制裁持续,俄罗斯评估还将面临数千亿美元的经济痛苦。经过四年的制裁,其部分出口市场已萎缩50%。北约成员国拉脱维亚的国家安全分析师发布报告估计,俄罗斯在受制裁期间,为了购买西方商品额外支出了1300亿美元。该分析由宪法保护局(SAB)发布,估算基于2022年至2025年的支出,相当于每年损失325亿美元。这一数字仅针对西方商品的进口。此外,由于国际制裁,俄罗斯还损失了数千亿美元的出口市场和被西方银行冻结的资产。分析人士表示,该报告仅计算了从替代渠道购买商品的额外成本,不包括俄罗斯无法找到替代品的情况。情报显示,俄罗斯内部机构正内部预测进一步的损失,尽管其公开宣称经济正成功适应西方制裁的影响。拉脱维亚一直指责俄方利用虚假信息和秘密行动破坏地区稳定。
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2026-04-16T04:31:05.564Z
A new Latvian analysis said sanctions forced Russia to spend an extra $130 billion on buying goods.
It said Russia assesses hundreds of billions of dollars in further economic pain if sanctions continue.
Some of its export markets have also fallen by 50% after four years of sanctions, the report added.
NATO member Latvia's national security analysts have released a report estimating that Russia has spent an additional $130 billion trying to buy Western goods while being sanctioned.
Published last week by the Constitution Protection Bureau (SAB), the government analysis said the estimate was based on spending from 2022 to 2025, translating to an annual $32.5 billion loss.That estimated figure is just for imports of Western goods. The international sanctions, imposed after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, also mean the country has lost hundreds of billions from its export markets and assets frozen by Western banks.The Latvian analysts said their report accounted only for the additional cost of goods eventually bought from alternative sources, and excluded cases where Russia couldn't find substitutes.They added that intelligence showed that Russian institutions are internally forecasting further losses, "despite Russia's public announcements claiming its economy is successfully adapting to the impact of the Western sanctions."
Latvia, one of the Baltic States, sits on Russia's Western flank and has been one of the most outspoken NATO members against the Kremlin, accusing it of running disinformation campaigns and covert operations to destabilize local politics.Its analysts wrote, without providing details about their sources, that one Russian forecast warned foreign trade would lose another $136 billion by 2030 solely due to Western sanctions.Another forecast said a continued loss of trade with Europe would account for about $70 billion of these losses, the analysts added."SAB assesses these estimates to be an undercount — the losses are likely much higher," the report said.The internal estimates don't account for the "entire economic spectrum," it said, such as reduced tax revenues or inflated consumer prices.A separate internal Russian forecast put its energy sector losses at $216.5 billion over the next five years if "Western pressure increases," the Latvian report added. The oil and gas industries typically account for about 15-20% of Russia's GDP and nearly a third of federal revenues.The report added that Russia has been struggling to find alternative markets for its exports in some major sectors. For example, Russian iron ore exports had been reduced by 40% from 2021 to 2025, and timber and