As Ukrainian drone strikes cripple Russia’s fuel supply, Moscow faces 'one crisis after another'
Ukraine’s campaign has disabled 42.74% of Russian refining capacity and pushed most regions to ration fuel, analysts and officials said.
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An oil superpower that can’t fill its own gasoline tanks: How Ukraine’s drone war upended Russia’s fuel market
Shortages of gasoline and diesel have affected most of Russia’s regions, as well as the annexed areas of Ukraine, to one degree or another. Regional restrictions usually take the form of bans on filling canisters and limits on how much any one customer can buy. At some gas stations, there’s no gasoline or diesel at all; at others, lines stretch for miles, and drivers spend hours — sometimes dozens of hours
The fuel crisis in Russia has now adopted absurd trains. The Kremlin is now putting into circulation a mass of cheap fuel to preserve the appearance of normality. Motor control lights are glowing – but that is likely to be Vladimir Putin's least problem ... Those who are currently speculating on a full tank load in Russia must be patient in large parts of the country. Ukraine has been hitting Putin's energy infrastructure for weeks so effectivel…
Russia Hit by Fuel Shortages and Petrol Queues as Ukrainian Drones Cripple Refineries
Russians are queuing for hours at petrol stations and facing fuel rationing as Ukrainian drone strikes continue to knock out oil refineries across the country. The disruption now stretches from Crimea to Siberia, with nearly all of Russia's 83 regions reporting some form of shortage. The crisis has built up over months of sustained Ukrainian attacks, with refineries hit more than once in several regions before repairs could be completed. Officia…
Pump fiction. Queues and empty tanks in thousands of Russian gas station reviews as Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries drain fuel supply
The fuel crisis in Russia, set off by Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries, has left most regions restricting gasoline sales in one way or another, with huge queues forming at gas s...
As Ukrainian drone strikes cripple Russia’s fuel supply, Moscow faces 'one crisis after another'
Russia's Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery had just restarted operations when Ukrainian drones hit it again. The facility — the fourth-largest oil refinery and the second-largest producer of gasoline in the country — had been struck by Ukraine on June 24, forcing operations to shut down. On July 2, Ukrainian drones paid another visit, forcing the facility to shut down once again. Gazprom's Omsk Oil Refinery, in Omsk, approximately 2,445 k…
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