Long car queues in front of numerous gas stations, fuel prices rising from hour to hour and fuel rationing cards for private drivers. What sounds like scenes from the film happens in eastern Russia and on the territories of Georgia and Ukraine occupied by Moscow.
While the regime priority treats the supply of large cities and the western part of the country, in rural areas in the Far East Putin's Empire, petrol seems almost unavailable, as the numerous films show angry drivers.
A resident of the Chabarovsk region, also located in the Far East, told The Moscow Times that gas stations are covered with plates with the inscription “Closed”. In larger cities you can still refuel, but The queues last from an hour and a half to two hours.
An even worse situation seems to prevail in the Abkhazia region occupied by Russia, which was separated from Georgia as a result of the war in 2008. Residents inform that even after six hours of waiting at the gas station they did not receive fuel and had to leave their cars on the streets.
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Russian powers paralyzed
An equally dramatic situation is in the illegally annexed Ukrainian Crimea in 2014. For several days, rationed fuel cards have been distributed there, thanks to which each driver can only refuel his car and only once a day.
According to observers, the cause of a huge deficiency of gasoline are almost daily attacks of Ukrainian long -range drones on Russian gas and kerosene installations, and above all on the already destroyed refineries in the richest in the raw materials of the country in the world.
From the beginning of the year, Ukraine has destroyed or immobilized as a result of attacks 13-17 percent Russia's refinery power. As a consequence, Putin's regime first introduced a ban on gas exports, and now the first deficiencies among the Russian population appear.
Ukrainian attacks
On August 2, after hitting the unmanned aircraft, the Rosneft refinery in Nowokujbyszewsk with 8.3 million tons per year stopped. On August 11, she suspended the refinery in Saratów, whose power is 5.8 million tons per year.
On August 15, the work of the largest work in the south of Russia was announced. The Łukoil refinery plant in Volgograd, whose production capacity is 14.8 million tons per year. On the same day, after the drone attack, oil was suspended for processing in the Rosneft Refinery Department in Samara, whose production capacity is 8.5 million tons per year.
In addition, on August 2, about half of the production capacity (6.9 million TZ 13.8) stopped the refinery in Riazan, the largest of Rosneft's plants. Fuel from this place goes, among others to gas stations in Moscow.
In this way In less than three weeks, oil concerns lost 44.3 million T annual refinery capacitywhich is 13.5 percent The total power of the refinery in the country, which according to expert estimates is 328 million tons per year.
As a result, in 2025, Russia again stood in the face of gasoline deficiency: 92 and 95 gasoline stock prices have increased by 40 percent since the beginning of the year. and 50 percent and broke historical records.
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