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"ukraine-strikes-russian-refineries-oil-products", "url": "https://warconomy.com/briefings/ukraine-strikes-russian-refineries-oil-products", "title": "Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries: fuel supply, exports and prices", "question": "How can Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries affect fuel supply, exports and prices?", "summary": "Strikes on refining capacity hit refined fuel output and exports differently from crude production, with sanctions and shadow-fleet shipping shaping where Russian barrels go — a mechanism explainer, not a live damage assessment.", "whyItMatters": "Refinery damage can change fuel availability and prices at the pump in some markets — even when crude keeps flowing.", "humanContext": null, "featured": false, "group": "energy-oil", "caveatType": "current-context", "lastReviewed": "2026-06-23", "sourceIds": [ "crea-russia-fossil-tracker", "ec-sanctions-energy", "us-treasury-russia-price-cap", "ec-repowereu" ], "sources": [ { "id": 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"title": "Iran and the Strait of Hormuz: oil prices and tanker risk", "question": "How can Iran/Hormuz tensions affect oil prices and tanker flows?", "summary": "The Strait of Hormuz is the world's most important oil chokepoint; tension there works through a supply-risk premium, war-risk insurance and tanker routing — channels explained here without any claim of live ship tracking.", "whyItMatters": "A fifth of the world's oil passes one narrow strait — tension there can ripple into fuel and energy prices everywhere.", "humanContext": null, "featured": false, "group": "energy-oil", "caveatType": "evergreen-mechanism", "lastReviewed": "2026-06-23", "sourceIds": [ "eia-steo-chokepoints", "eia-brent", "eia-spot-prices" ], "sources": [ { "id": "eia-steo-chokepoints", "title": "EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook — energy security / maritime oil chokepoints", "publisher": "U.S. Energy Information Administration", "url": "https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/energysecurity/article.php", 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and cost to container and tanker voyages. This explains the rerouting, insurance and freight channels, anchored on dated UNCTAD and IMF PortWatch assessments.", "whyItMatters": "When ships avoid the Red Sea, goods take longer and cost more to ship — which can show up in the price of everyday products.", "humanContext": null, "featured": false, "group": "shipping-chokepoints", "caveatType": "historical-episode", "lastReviewed": "2026-06-23", "sourceIds": [ "unctad-red-sea", "unctad-rmt-2024", "imf-portwatch-red-sea", "sca" ], "sources": [ { "id": "unctad-red-sea", "title": "UNCTAD — Navigating troubled waters (Red Sea / Suez rapid assessment)", "publisher": "UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)", "url": "https://unctad.org/publication/navigating-troubled-waters-impact-global-trade-disruption-shipping-routes-red-sea-black", "type": "intergovernmental", "page": "https://warconomy.com/sources/unctad-red-sea" }, { "id": "unctad-rmt-2024", "title": "UNCTAD — Review of Maritime Transport 2024", "publisher": "UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)", "url": "https://unctad.org/publication/review-maritime-transport-2024", "type": "intergovernmental", "page": "https://warconomy.com/sources/unctad-rmt-2024" }, { "id": "imf-portwatch-red-sea", "title": "IMF PortWatch — Red Sea Attacks Disrupt Global Trade", "publisher": "International Monetary Fund", "url": "https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2024/03/07/red-sea-attacks-disrupt-global-trade", "type": "intergovernmental", "page": "https://warconomy.com/sources/imf-portwatch-red-sea" }, { "id": "sca", "title": "Suez Canal Authority — Navigation statistics", "publisher": "Suez Canal Authority", "url": "https://www.suezcanal.gov.eg/English/Navigation/Pages/NavigationStatistics.aspx", "type": "official", "page": "https://warconomy.com/sources/sca" } ], "extraReferences": [], "seriesRefs": [], "relatedRoutes": [ { "name": "Red Sea shipping economic impact", "path": "/chokepoints/red-sea-shipping/economic-impact" }, { "name": "Bab el-Mandeb economic impact", "path": "/chokepoints/bab-el-mandeb/economic-impact" }, { "name": "Commodity price history (FAO + World Bank)", "path": "/commodities/history" } ], "whatThisDoesNotProve": [ "It does not establish current Red Sea traffic or freight levels; the cited figures are dated assessments.", "It does not prove that rerouting caused any specific commodity-price change — many factors move freight and prices together.", "Warconomy does not track live ship movements or real-time freight indices." ], "noOverclaimFlags": [ "not-real-time", "no-sole-causation", "no-live-ship-tracking" ], "needsSourcePacket": null }, { "slug": "russia-ukraine-food-fertilizer-prices", "url": "https://warconomy.com/briefings/russia-ukraine-food-fertilizer-prices", "title": "Russia–Ukraine war: food and fertilizer prices", "question": "How did the Russia–Ukraine war pressure food and fertilizer prices?", "summary": "Russia and Ukraine are major exporters of grains, oilseeds, fertilizer and the gas that fertilizer is made from. This explains the grain-export, fertilizer and energy-input channels, anchored on FAO and World Bank price history.", "whyItMatters": "Two countries at war supply much of the world's grain and fertilizer — disruptions can reach grocery bills far away.", "humanContext": null, "featured": false, "group": "food-fertilizer", "caveatType": "historical-episode", "lastReviewed": "2026-06-23", "sourceIds": [ "fao-fpi", "worldbank" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fao-fpi", "title": "FAO — Food Price Index (monthly)", "publisher": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations", "url": "https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/", "type": "intergovernmental", "page": "https://warconomy.com/sources/fao-fpi" }, { "id": "worldbank", "title": "World Bank", "publisher": "World Bank Group", "url": "https://www.worldbank.org", "type": "intergovernmental", "page": "https://warconomy.com/sources/worldbank" } ], "extraReferences": [], "seriesRefs": [ { "kind": "fao", "id": "ffpi", "label": "FAO Food Price Index" }, { "kind": "fao", "id": "cereals", "label": "FAO Cereal Price Index" }, { "kind": "worldbank", "id": "wheat", "label": "Wheat (World Bank, US$/mt)" }, { "kind": "worldbank", "id": "maize", "label": "Maize (World Bank, US$/mt)" }, { "kind": "worldbank", "id": "urea", "label": "Urea fertilizer (World Bank, US$/mt)" }, { "kind": "worldbank", "id": "dap", "label": "DAP fertilizer (World Bank, US$/mt)" } ], "relatedRoutes": [ { "name": "Russia–Ukraine economic impact", "path": "/conflicts/russia-ukraine/economic-impact" }, { "name": "Food prices", "path": "/commodities/food-prices/economic-impact" }, { "name": "Commodity price history (FAO + World Bank)", "path": "/commodities/history" } ], "whatThisDoesNotProve": [ "It does not prove the war was the sole cause of any food- or fertilizer-price move; weather, energy, policy and demand all contribute.", "The figures are source-reported index and price levels, shown for context, not a measured war impact.", "Warconomy does not forecast prices or claim real-time market data." ], "noOverclaimFlags": [ "not-real-time", "no-sole-causation", "mechanism-not-forecast" ], "needsSourcePacket": null }, { "slug": "africa-conflict-critical-minerals", "url": "https://warconomy.com/briefings/africa-conflict-critical-minerals", "title": "Conflict in Africa and critical-mineral supply", "question": "How can conflicts in Africa affect the trade in critical minerals?", "summary": "Several minerals central to batteries and electronics — cobalt, copper, coltan, gold, lithium — are concentrated in conflict-affected parts of Africa. This explains the concentration and disruption-risk channels and flags where dedicated sources are still needed.", "whyItMatters": "Phones, cars and batteries depend on minerals concentrated in conflict-affected regions — concentration means exposure.", "humanContext": null, "featured": false, "group": "critical-minerals", "caveatType": "evergreen-mechanism", "lastReviewed": "2026-06-23", "sourceIds": [ "unctad", "worldbank" ], "sources": [ { "id": "unctad", "title": "UN Conference on Trade and Development", "publisher": "UNCTAD", "url": "https://unctad.org", "type": "intergovernmental", "page": "https://warconomy.com/sources/unctad" }, { "id": "worldbank", "title": "World Bank", "publisher": "World Bank Group", "url": "https://www.worldbank.org", "type": "intergovernmental", "page": "https://warconomy.com/sources/worldbank" } ], "extraReferences": [], "seriesRefs": [], "relatedRoutes": [ { "name": "Critical minerals & conflict", "path": "/minerals" }, { "name": "Commodities hub", "path": "/commodities" }, { "name": "Source registry", "path": "/sources" }, { "name": "Data needs (backlog)", "path": "/data-needs" } ], "whatThisDoesNotProve": [ "It does not assert any specific mine output, price level, or that a particular conflict changed mineral supply by a measurable amount.", "Warconomy does not track live mine production or real-time mineral prices.", "Concentration of supply is a structural fact about exposure, not a prediction of disruption." ], "noOverclaimFlags": [ "not-real-time", "no-sole-causation", "mechanism-not-forecast" ], "needsSourcePacket": "A critical-minerals data layer (e.g. USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries or World Bank metal price levels for cobalt/copper) would need a dedicated source packet before any minerals figures could be shown; none is tracked today." }, { "slug": "sanctions-shadow-fleet-oil-trade", "url": "https://warconomy.com/briefings/sanctions-shadow-fleet-oil-trade", "title": "Sanctions, the price cap and shadow-fleet oil trade", "question": "How do sanctions and shadow fleets affect the oil trade?", "summary": "The G7/EU oil price cap and sanctions aim to limit revenue while keeping oil flowing; an opaque 'shadow fleet' has grown to move barrels outside cap-compliant channels. 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This explains how that, with deaths among young adults, can leave a smaller, older population — stressing the deep uncertainty involved.", "whyItMatters": "War can quietly reshape a country's future — fewer young people, an older population, and the long economic adjustments that follow.", "humanContext": "Decisions about marriage and children are among the most personal people make. War disrupts them by separating families, taking young lives, and making the future feel unsafe. This briefing treats those as human realities first, then explains their long demographic and economic echo.", "featured": false, "group": "human-capital", "caveatType": "evergreen-mechanism", "lastReviewed": "2026-06-23", "sourceIds": [ "worldbank" ], "sources": [ { "id": "worldbank", "title": "World Bank", "publisher": "World Bank Group", "url": "https://www.worldbank.org", "type": "intergovernmental", "page": "https://warconomy.com/sources/worldbank" } ], "extraReferences": [ { "title": "World Population Prospects", "publisher": "UN DESA Population Division", "url": "https://population.un.org/wpp/", "type": "intergovernmental" }, { "title": "World Bank Open Data (population, labour, GDP)", "publisher": "World Bank", "url": "https://data.worldbank.org/", "type": "intergovernmental" } ], "seriesRefs": [], "relatedRoutes": [ { "name": "War, population & economic scarring", "path": "/human-capital" }, { "name": "Conflict economies (World Bank)", "path": "/conflict-economies" }, { "name": "Military losses & labour briefing", "path": "/briefings/russia-ukraine-troop-losses-labor-force-growth" } ], "whatThisDoesNotProve": [ "It does not predict any country's future fertility or population — these are uncertain and vary widely.", "It does not attribute an observed change in fertility or population to a specific war.", "Demographic effects unfold slowly and interact with many non-war factors." ], "noOverclaimFlags": [ "not-real-time", "no-sole-causation", "estimates-not-certainties", "mechanism-not-forecast", "human-dignity-first" ], "needsSourcePacket": null }, { "slug": "sudan-war-displacement-food-economy", "url": "https://warconomy.com/briefings/sudan-war-displacement-food-economy", "title": "Sudan's war: displacement, food and the road to recovery", "question": "How can Sudan's war affect displacement, food insecurity and economic recovery?", "summary": "Sudan's war has caused mass displacement and severe food insecurity. This explains the human-capital and recovery channels — lost livelihoods, disrupted farming and a heavy humanitarian burden — pointing to UN and FAO/WFP reporting for the figures.", "whyItMatters": "Millions of people uprooted and a deepening hunger crisis are first a human emergency — and a long setback to a country's economy.", "humanContext": "Sudan's war has driven one of the world's largest displacement and hunger crises, affecting families, children and communities first of all. This briefing keeps that human emergency central while explaining the economic damage that follows and the long road to recovery.", "featured": false, "group": "human-capital", "caveatType": "current-context", "lastReviewed": "2026-06-23", "sourceIds": [ "fao-fpi", "imf-portwatch-red-sea" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fao-fpi", "title": "FAO — Food Price Index (monthly)", "publisher": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations", "url": "https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/", "type": "intergovernmental", "page": "https://warconomy.com/sources/fao-fpi" }, { "id": "imf-portwatch-red-sea", "title": "IMF PortWatch — Red Sea Attacks Disrupt Global Trade", "publisher": "International Monetary Fund", "url": "https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2024/03/07/red-sea-attacks-disrupt-global-trade", "type": "intergovernmental", "page": "https://warconomy.com/sources/imf-portwatch-red-sea" } ], "extraReferences": [ { "title": "Refugee Data Finder", "publisher": "UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency)", "url": "https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/", "type": "intergovernmental" }, { "title": "Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM)", "publisher": "International Organization for Migration (IOM)", "url": "https://dtm.iom.int/", "type": "intergovernmental" }, { "title": "ReliefWeb situation reports", "publisher": "UN OCHA", "url": "https://reliefweb.int/", "type": "intergovernmental" }, { "title": "GIEWS — Global Information and Early Warning System", "publisher": "FAO", "url": "https://www.fao.org/giews/en/", "type": "intergovernmental" }, { "title": "HungerMap LIVE", "publisher": "World Food Programme (WFP)", "url": "https://hungermap.wfp.org/", "type": "intergovernmental" } ], "seriesRefs": [], "relatedRoutes": [ { "name": "Africa conflict hub", "path": "/conflicts/africa" }, { "name": "War, population & economic scarring", "path": "/human-capital" }, { "name": "Sudan, Red Sea & food trade briefing", "path": "/briefings/sudan-conflict-red-sea-food-trade" }, { "name": "Food & fertilizer", "path": "/topics/food-fertilizer" } ], "whatThisDoesNotProve": [ "It does not state how many people are displaced or facing hunger — those are estimates that change over time and live on the cited UN/FAO/WFP sources.", "It does not attribute a specific price or recovery outcome solely to the war.", "The pace and shape of recovery are uncertain and depend on when the fighting ends." ], "noOverclaimFlags": [ "not-real-time", "no-sole-causation", "estimates-not-certainties", "human-dignity-first", "no-own-casualty-figures" ], "needsSourcePacket": "Sudan displacement and food-security figures (IPC/FEWS NET/UNHCR/IOM) would need a hand-supplied source packet, presented with their own uncertainty; none is published as a Warconomy figure." }, { "slug": "drc-conflict-mining-labor-displacement", "url": "https://warconomy.com/briefings/drc-conflict-mining-labor-displacement", "title": "Conflict in DRC: mining labour, displacement and supply chains", "question": "How can conflict in DRC affect mining labour, displacement and mineral supply chains?", "summary": "Conflict in eastern DRC displaces people and shapes mining livelihoods that feed global supply chains. This explains the displacement, labour and trade-disruption channels, with a careful critical-minerals caveat.", "whyItMatters": "The people displaced by eastern DRC's conflict, and those who mine its minerals by hand, sit at the start of supply chains the whole world relies on.", "humanContext": "Eastern DRC's long conflict has displaced many people and shaped hard, often dangerous, livelihoods including artisanal mining. This briefing keeps those human realities central — safety, displacement, dignity — while explaining the links to labour, trade and global mineral supply chains.", "featured": false, "group": "human-capital", "caveatType": "current-context", "lastReviewed": "2026-06-23", "sourceIds": [ "worldbank", "unctad" ], "sources": [ { "id": "worldbank", "title": "World Bank", "publisher": "World Bank Group", "url": "https://www.worldbank.org", "type": "intergovernmental", "page": "https://warconomy.com/sources/worldbank" }, { "id": "unctad", "title": "UN Conference on Trade and Development", "publisher": "UNCTAD", "url": "https://unctad.org", "type": "intergovernmental", "page": "https://warconomy.com/sources/unctad" } ], "extraReferences": [ { "title": "Mineral Commodity Summaries", "publisher": "U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-center/mineral-commodity-summaries", "type": "official" }, { "title": "Refugee Data Finder", "publisher": "UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency)", "url": "https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/", "type": "intergovernmental" }, { "title": "Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM)", "publisher": "International Organization for Migration (IOM)", "url": "https://dtm.iom.int/", "type": "intergovernmental" }, { "title": "Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)", "publisher": "Uppsala University", "url": "https://ucdp.uu.se/", "type": "academic" } ], "seriesRefs": [], "relatedRoutes": [ { "name": "Africa conflict hub", "path": "/conflicts/africa" }, { "name": "DRC cobalt & copper briefing", "path": "/briefings/drc-conflict-cobalt-copper-trade" }, { "name": "Critical minerals", "path": "/topics/critical-minerals" }, { "name": "War, population & economic scarring", "path": "/human-capital" } ], "whatThisDoesNotProve": [ "It does not state how many people are displaced or any mine output — those are estimates that live on the cited sources.", "It does not attribute a specific mineral price or supply change to the conflict.", "Conditions vary across the region and over time and cannot be generalised." ], "noOverclaimFlags": [ "not-real-time", "no-sole-causation", "estimates-not-certainties", "human-dignity-first", "no-own-casualty-figures" ], "needsSourcePacket": null }, { "slug": "gaza-war-labor-reconstruction-human-capital", "url": "https://warconomy.com/briefings/gaza-war-labor-reconstruction-human-capital", "title": "Gaza: human capital, displacement and reconstruction", "question": "How can war damage human capital and reconstruction prospects in Gaza and the region?", "summary": "War can destroy not just buildings but human capital — health, education and skills. This explains how destruction, displacement and damaged services weigh on Gaza's recovery, pointing to UN and World Bank assessments for figures.", "whyItMatters": "Rebuilding after such destruction is first about people — their safety, health and schooling — long before it is about buildings.", "humanContext": "The war in Gaza has caused immense human suffering, mass displacement and widespread destruction. This briefing keeps that human reality central. 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