The economic pain from the “special military operation” is reaching a critical breaking point. Russia’s financial sector is in the throes of an “existential financial panic,” driven by a collapsing corporate debt structure and ordinary citizens losing all faith in the system.
The crisis is no longer hidden, as major financial institutions begin to report catastrophic loan defaults. Here is a detailed breakdown of the nightmare news facing Vladimir Putin and the Russian economy.
1. The Financial Panic: A Trillion-Ruble Bank Run
The clearest sign of panic is the rapid withdrawal of savings. In just the last five months, Russian citizens have pulled a staggering 1 trillion rubles from their bank accounts.
This massive withdrawal of capital is fueling widespread fears of a systemic banking crisis by the next year. When citizens lose faith in their banks and pull their money out en masse, it creates a bank run that no financial system, regardless of its size, can sustain.
Economic Embarrassment for Citizens
Despite Russia being a major global oil exporter, the cost of living for ordinary citizens is skyrocketing:
- Gasoline Prices: The average price of gasoline is officially higher in Russia than in the United States. This is particularly painful given that the average Russian earns nine times less than the average American.
- Medicine Costs: Price hikes on essential goods like medicine are pushing citizens to the brink, with one woman shown crying on camera over the shocking cost of three basic medicine boxes.
2. The Corporate Debt Bomb Implodes
The deepest structural problem lies in the corporate sector, a direct result of Putin’s war strategy.
At the start of the invasion, Putin forced Russian banks to issue high-risk loans to defense contractors to rapidly expand production. Now, with the economy slowing down, those loans are imploding, creating a corporate debt bomb.
The Delinquency Crisis:
- A record number of Russian companies are delinquent on payments.
- Data shows that nearly two-thirds (66%) of Russia’s largest companies are now unable to pay their loans.
- Overall, about 25% of all companies with loans are delinquent on their monthly payments.
This massive corporate failure is not limited to small businesses; it includes major state-owned entities like Russian Railways, which has been forced to negotiate extensions on loans it cannot afford to pay.
3. Systematic Bank Collapse Risk
The crisis has officially reached Russia’s most critical financial institutions.
Rossev Bank, one of the 12 banks the Russian Central Bank deems “systematically important” (meaning its collapse would take down the entire system), has defaulted on 600 billion rubles in loans.
This single default represents about 12% of the bank’s total assets. For comparison, the video notes that a US bank collapsed in 2008 due to only 3% of its assets going bad. The fact that a systematically important bank is reporting such a massive loss publicly tells us how fragile the situation has become.
4. Unprecedented Borrowing to Stay Afloat
To prevent an immediate, catastrophic collapse, the Russian government is intervening by dumping money into the banking sector and borrowing at a rate never seen before.
- Bailout Spending: So far this year, the government has dumped around 600 billion rubles into the banking system—six times more than last year .
- Borrowing Spree: As the government funds the war, props up collapsing companies, and bails out banks, Russian borrowing has gone “through the roof.”
The line on Russia’s borrowing chart for the current year is spiking at an unprecedented rate. The government is attempting to print and borrow its way out of a debt crisis, a strategy that historically leads to long-term economic disaster.
An Unrecoverable Reckoning
The convergence of a massive consumer bank run and a crumbling corporate debt structure has placed the Russian economy in a devastating, and perhaps unrecoverable, financial reckoning. The question is no longer if the financial pain will worsen, but how long the government can continue to borrow and print money before the system breaks.
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Watch the full Business Basics report here: Putin gets NIGHTMARE NEWS as Banks COLLAPSE ACROSS Russia
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