Geostrategic Daily

gCaptain · 22 October 2026

Putin’s War On Ukraine Puts Oil Giant Rosneft Under Mounting Pressure

Rosneft’s Vostok Oil project is years behind schedule, and most crude flowing through its new Arctic network has been diverted from fields that have produced for years. Ukrainian drones have carried out at least 114 strikes on Russian refineries this year, more than double the number over the same period last year.

Why it matters: The strain on Rosneft shows how the war in Ukraine and sanctions are feeding through to energy security and oil supply.

sanctions export controls · great power rivalry

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Source
gCaptain (tier 1)
Published
22 October 2026
Link
https://gcaptain.com/putins-war-on-ukraine-puts-oil-giant-rosneft-under-mounting-pressure/
Content depth
full
Regions
europe-eurasia-mena
Subregions
russia, arctic
Actors
Rosneft, Vladimir Putin, Igor Sechin
Edition
2026-10-23

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Verbatim spans from the source text that support the summary above.

Years behind schedule, Vostok Oil is still far from becoming Russia’s new oil province.
The vast majority of crude flowing through the costly new Arctic network has been diverted from fields that have been producing for years.
Ukrainian drones have carried out at least 114 strikes on Russian refineries