In 2022, rail freight traffic volume with friendly countries increased by 23%, while it decreased by 40% with non-friendly countries. In this respect reported Oleg Belozerov, Director General of Russian Railways (RZD), at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“The volume of cargo transportation with friendly countries increased by 23 percent, while non-friendly countries decreased by about 40 percent, respectively, from 365 to 210 million (tons), and this trend continues,” Belozerov said.
The head of Russian Railways also noted that states that do not want to cooperate with Russia “lost a lot”.
In the first half of January, Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko reported on increasing the volume of food supplies to friendly countries by 25% in 2022, on the background of the introduction of many sanctions.
Telegram channel “Concrete figures” at the end of January calculatedHe said in November 2022 that Russia had reduced the volume of products exported to foreign countries for the first time since January 2021. In monetary terms, this indicator was at the level of 45 billion dollars, the decrease on an annual basis was 8 percent.