Even more funnier is the fact that now Russia is earning more thanks to the sanctions. As a result of these sanctions and embargoes the gas prices have gone up by multiple times and the crude oil prices have reached a level not seen since 2014. They maybe selling less amount of oil and gas, but from these exports, they are earning more revenues. For the year 2021 Gazprom alone earned a profit of close to $21 billion (almost 20x higher than the level from 2020). For the year of 2022, the profits are going to be even higher.
I do agree that gas prices going up, oil prices all going up ended up helping Russia and their Ruble is not doing that bad at all. At the start of this war, it was around 75 per dollar, and it peaked at around 130 if I am not wrong when the war started, right now it went under 70, which is better than before basically. Obviously, you can't just calculate a nations economy based on their fiats Dollar pair rate, but that is a good indicator of what’s going on for sure.
I mean if you are doing fine and getting more valuable against dollar, even better than before the war started, then you should be feeling at ease of what’s going on at least. Sanctions definitely didn't work out as intended.