The Accent analyzed how much fuel will cost Odessans

The new escalation in the Middle East, the US-Israeli operation and Iran's response have already had a significant impact on the global economy. Some Ukrainians are stuck in the region's countries, businesses are facing logistical problems, and news of another war on the world map does not add to optimism.

One of the first consequences was the rapid rise in fuel prices. Accenture found out what will happen next with fuel.

According to Yuriy Havrylechko, an economic expert and PhD in public administration, the skyrocketing fuel prices are due to the fact that Ukraine has no fuel reserves in place, as well as the fact that payments for imported fuel are offered in foreign currency, so the rise in the price of foreign currency will certainly affect fuel.

In addition, the scientist criticized the work of the Antimonopoly Committee, which, in his opinion, will take a long time to launch any investigation into a possible cartel.

"We have no safeguards against price increases. Neither physical in the form of reserves, nor administrative in the form of changes in taxation or changes in gold and share prices," the expert said.

Yuriy Havrylechko noted that the price of oil has now fallen on world markets due to the fact that Saudi Arabia has begun to actively use the pipeline and has tripled the volume of oil supplies not through tankers. The global price dropped by $20 per barrel, but the price of fuel in Ukraine did not.

"What they say is that traders are trying to create a reserve for fuel purchases in this way, but this is not true. If the price had been rising for two or three weeks, it would be logical. But now it is not. Let's imagine that traders decide to raise the price by 10-20 hryvnias, or triple their profits. Can you imagine the tax they will pay for this period? The tax authorities will not understand where such profits come from," the expert said.

Yuriy Havrylechko believes that there are no objective reasons for the rise in fuel prices.

Instead, farmers are worried that the price of products will rise due to increased costs of diesel fuel at the beginning of the sowing campaign.

Кирило Бойко