{"id":1415704,"date":"2026-07-08T20:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/?p=1415704"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:27:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:27:02","slug":"fuel-crisis-in-russia-the-country-has-banned-the-export-of-diesel-and-is-preparing-to-import-petroleum-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/fuel-crisis-in-russia-the-country-has-banned-the-export-of-diesel-and-is-preparing-to-import-petroleum-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel crisis in Russia: the country has banned the export of diesel and is preparing to import petroleum products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"199\"><strong data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"199\">Russia has imposed a complete ban on the export of diesel fuel and plans to begin importing petroleum products from July.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"201\" data-end=\"281\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/tass_agency\/384367\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by TASS, citing a statement by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"411\">According to him, demand for fuel in Russia has increased by almost a third, which has led to additional strain on gas stations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"413\" data-end=\"519\">Novak noted that the fuel supply situation has begun to stabilize, but remains tense.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"521\" data-end=\"722\">According to him, the Russian authorities are taking a number of measures to improve the situation. In particular, some repairs to oil refineries have been postponed and additional production capacity has been attracted.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"724\" data-end=\"842\">In addition, the current priority is to supply fuel to regions where independent gas stations mainly operate.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"844\" data-end=\"1102\">Separately, Russian Transport Minister Andrei Nikitin said the agency is doing &#8220;everything possible&#8221; to deliver fuel to temporarily occupied Crimea. According to him, fuel tankers are being allowed through checkpoints through the &#8220;green corridor&#8221; to normalize supplies.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1104\" data-end=\"1230\">Nikitin also acknowledged the reduction in aviation fuel supplies for Russian civil aviation, but called the situation &#8220;controlled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1232\" data-end=\"1479\">It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/dva-npz-tankery-ta-aerodrom-syly-oborony-urazyly-nyzku-stratehichnykh-ob-iektiv-rf\/\">on the night of July 8, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a number of strategic facilities on Russian territory<\/a> , including two oil refineries, six shadow fleet tankers, a military airfield, and transport bridges.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1481\" data-end=\"1563\">Also, after<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/omskyy-npz-prypynyv-robotu-pislia-ataky-ukrainskykh-bezpilotnykiv-reuters\/\">the attack by Ukrainian drones, the Omsk Oil Refinery stopped operating<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1481\" data-end=\"1563\">Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has imposed a complete ban on the export of diesel fuel and plans to begin importing petroleum products from July. This was reported by TASS, citing a statement by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak. According to him, demand for fuel in Russia has increased by almost a third, which has led to additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1415706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1415704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415705,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415704\/revisions\/1415705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}