“There is no fuel, there is absolutely no fuel,” Novaya Gazeta quoted one of them as saying.
The fuel crisis has probably reached Moscow itself. According to the newspaper, after the Ukrainian attacks on large refineries in central Russia, the sale of gasoline began to be restricted even in the suburbs of the capital. According to the website, Russians can buy a maximum of 60 liters of gasoline and 100 liters of diesel per person in New Moscow.
According to different limits on the sale of gasoline, people registered in at least 14 Russian regions.
In Sevastopol, they limited the sale of oil and pasta
In the case of Crimea, it’s not just gasoline. According to the website, problems with the supply of the peninsula have apparently begun to affect the local retail sector as well.
In Sevastopol, for example, they introduced restrictions on the sale of certain food products. As the website writes, in the Dobrostroj supermarket, customers have noticed that they can purchase a maximum of three bottles of vegetable oil and three packages of pasta per purchase.
Regional Minister of Agriculture Denis Kraťuk, however, denied that Crimea had a food problem in an interview with the newspaper.
“The current hype around certain types of grain and some raw materials is completely unfounded,” he said, adding that Crimea has enough stocks in warehouses and at the same time most of the goods are produced directly on the peninsula.
The fuel crisis may also affect the summer tourist season in Crimea. points out that tens of thousands of Russians make the long journey to the sea every year to enjoy the Crimean beaches, but a shortage of petrol may now be holding holidaymakers back – for fear that they simply won’t have anywhere or anything to refuel.
The Ukrainians are going hard for the source of financing the war
According to the newspaper, Ukraine carried out more than 20 attacks on Russian oil infrastructure from the beginning of the year to May, which deprived the Russian economy of more than seven billion dollars.
According to experts, the current systematic attacks aimed at supply routes can significantly hurt the Russian army for a change.
Robert Tollast, a military analyst from the British think tank RUSI, estimated that one Russian brigade receives around a thousand tons of cargo every day, such as fuel, ammunition and food.
“If, for example, you use small drones to cut off ammunition supplies 100 kilometers from the front and beyond, and subsequently use drones with a longer range to hit large logistics objects, then this is a very serious problem for the Russians,” he added.
