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Emma De Ruiter

Russia faked economic data to appear more resilient to its war and sanctions, intel report says

Russia has been manipulating its economic data to hide the real state of its economy amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, Sweden's military intelligence said on Monday.

Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service (MUST) said that while official Russian figures did show falling GDP and weak industrial production, they were presented in a way that made the country "appear more resilient than it really is".

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