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Roman Yerin
@romanyerin
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Sep 8
1) Russians don't want USSR back
2) Video is misleading this is Far East, while there's a truck with the mineral water from the very west of the country
3) Nothing besides the subtitles affirm this is the line to the gas station
4) The video has been stolen from UA TV station
Putin is facing a fuel crisis as Ukraine escalates attacks on Russian refineriesBy David Kirichenko
Gasoline prices soared to record highs in Russia this week amid growing reports of fuel shortages due to an escalating Ukrainian bombing campaign targeting Russia’s oil refineries. Social media has been flooded with videos showing long lines of cars and lorries queuing up at gas stations in regions across Russia and in occupied parts of Ukraine, highlighting the scale of the mounting crisis.
Ukrainian long-range drone strikes have knocked out around 13 percent of the Russia’s oil refining capacity since the beginning of August, the Moscow Times reports. The situation is proving particularly challenging as the supply disruption caused by Ukrainian airstrikes is coinciding with a period of peak seasonal demand due to summer travel and the upcoming harvest season.
News of Russia’s growing fuel shortages has been welcomed by many in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s influential chief of staff Andriy Yermak noted that Russia had earlier done everything it could to deprive Ukraine of fuel. “Now they suddenly face shortages themselves,” he commented. “That’s what happens when you attack Ukrainians.”
Ukraine’s unfolding bombing campaign is no mere act of righteous retribution, of course. The recent strikes against Russia’s oil industry infrastructure are designed to directly hit Putin’s war economy and undermine his ability to continue bankrolling the invasion of Ukraine. With Kyiv’s European and American allies seemingly reluctant to impose tougher sanctions measures against the Russian energy sector, Ukrainians see the current wave of drone attacks as a highly effective form of “direct sanctions.”
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-is-facing-a-fuel-crisis-as-ukraine-escalates-attacks-on-russian-refineries/
