Russia is facing a new serious problem

The head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation warned about it at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

As Elvira Nabiullina noted, the aggressor country was able to grow at a fairly high rate for two years because free resources were used.

She also emphasized that this concerns the workforce, production capacity, capital reserves of the banking system, as well as money from the National Welfare Fund (NWF), with which the Russian government patched "holes" in the budget and paid for trillion-dollar megaprojects.

"We need to understand that many of these resources are really exhausted," Putin's ally declared.

She also does not hide the fact that mass emigration and the recruitment of men for war have created a shortage of personnel, which the Russian government estimates at 2 million people.

Elvira Nabiullina officially confirmed that Russian business profits fell by 33% in March, and in the key oil and gas sector, they doubled.