At the beginning of 2020, Belarus was in a different crisis. Then, it was about oil and President Lukashenko’s relationship with Putin. During that crisis from January to March of this year, oil supplies to Belarus from Rosneft, one of the two giant Russian oil companies, were reduced to a trickle. Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin thought Russia was not getting enough for the heavily subsidised oil provided to Lukashenko.
Rear Admiral John Kirby, the official representative of the Pentagon, said that contrary to the logic of military operations, US intelligence did not record from the end of February to mid-April any attempt by the Armed Forces of the Russian.
Russia's economy will need at least two years to readjust if sanctions remain at their current level, Head of the Russian Accounts Chamber Alexey Kudrin told reporters, according to TASS. "Of course, our economy will have to readjust. I believe that we need to separate the medium and long term