Recurring strike-driven fires and fuel-contamination events across Black Sea and Azov port-refinery infrastructure are cutting into Russian hydrocarbon throughput and export revenue, compounding a federal budget deficit already on track to breach 10 trillion rubles.
// Cascade Logic
Strike-driven refinery/port fires → lost processing and export capacity → reduced oil-and-fuel revenue → wider federal budget deficit.
// Causal Graph
// Evidence Base
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Each fire or contamination event knocks out refining and export throughput at Black Sea/Azov nodes, eroding the hydrocarbon revenue base and mechanically widening the federal deficit that Moscow must finance.