Kilometer-long queues at gas stations and fuel imports: how strikes on refineries affected the situation in Russia

Russia is facing a deepening fuel crisis, with queues at gas stations already reaching 5 kilometers in some regions. According to Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, the fuel shortage is a result of attacks on Russia’s oil refining infrastructure.

This is reported by Channel 24 .

Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council, noted that a particularly difficult situation is observed in Chita, Transbaikalia Krai, where queues of 2 to 5 kilometers long form at gas stations. He noted that due to Russia’s considerable size, the scale of the fuel crisis continues to grow.

He stated that Russian oil refineries cannot cover the fuel shortage that arose after Ukrainian strikes on relevant infrastructure.

According to Kovalenko, Russia is already forced to import fuel from India, and Kazakhstan has provided 50,000 tons of humanitarian aid. At the same time, he believes that these volumes are not enough to overcome the deficit.

“The work of Russian refineries will not improve until Russia ends the war. Otherwise, it will continue to lose oil refineries located 2 thousand kilometers away. And everything will reach these refineries. Therefore, Russia is turning into a state that sells oil and buys fuel,” said the head of the Central Oil and Gas Development Center.

He also noted that, in his opinion, India benefits from this situation because it buys Russian oil at a low price and then sells the fuel produced from it to Russia at a higher price.

“This is Putin’s “trap plan”: for the sake of Konstantinovka or Malaya Tokmachka, the existence of which no one in Moscow or St. Petersburg even knows about, Russians are sitting without fuel. But they themselves voted and elected Vladimir Putin and supported the so-called “SVO”. This is the price for such actions,” Andriy Kovalenko said.

The head of the Central Powers Committee added that if Russia does not stop the war in the fall, then in the winter, according to his assessment, the Russians may also face problems with energy supply.

It was previously reported that the Ukrainian Defense Forces had disabled 42.74% of the total design capacity of the Russian oil refining industry as of early July . In June alone, the Ukrainian military successfully attacked eight oil refineries.

By the way, Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil refineries are increasingly hitting the Russian fuel industry . Gasoline production has noticeably decreased, and fuel problems are already affecting regions located thousands of kilometers from Ukraine.

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