{
  "id": 217209,
  "title": "Russia's refinery crisis costs budget $15 billion since April",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/russias-refinery-crisis-costs-budget-15-billion-since-april",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-06T11:15:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Voice of Ukraine",
    "slug": "new-voice-of-ukraine",
    "url": "https://english.nv.ua/nation/subsidies-to-oil-companies-in-russia-rising-causing-budget-deficit-amid-setbacks-at-refineries-50630396.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "For a fourth consecutive month, Russia's government has paid out hundreds of billions of rubles in subsidies to oil companies as their refineries are repeatedly struck by drones and forced offline, according to data published by Russia's Finance Ministry on Aug. 5.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}