Gas Stations Are Closing En Masse In Russia
25- 26.09.2025, 19:38
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Even in Moscow there are fuel shortages.
In Russia, gas stations are massively ceasing operations. The reason for such dynamics is a drop in production at oil refineries.
The website of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine reports.
It is known that within two months the number of gas stations in Russia has decreased by 360 objects, or 2.6%.
According to statistics, every fiftieth gas station in Russia stopped selling gasoline.
Independent filling stations suffered the most - their number decreased by 4.1%, while among the filling stations owned by vertically integrated oil companies the drop amounted to only 0.8%.
"Some networks, which continue to operate in conditions of local fuel shortage, had to introduce restrictions on gasoline sales of 10-20 liters per visitor or temporarily sell only diesel," the intelligence report said.
The greatest difficulties are recorded in the Southern Federal District, where more than 220 gas stations, or 14.2% of their total number in the region, stopped trading in fuel. In the Rostov region, Mari El and the Jewish Autonomous Region the number of gas stations decreased by 12-14%.
Moscow has suffered from the fuel crisis, and Crimea has the biggest deficit
The fuel crisis has reached Moscow, Moscow and Leningrad regions. In the Russian capital Lukoil has banned selling gasoline in canisters at some gas stations.
The most acute situation with fuel is observed in the temporarily occupied Crimea and Sevastopol, where about half of gas stations have stopped selling gasoline.
The head of the occupation administration of the peninsula, Sergey Aksyonov, asked residents to "be patient" and explained the shortage by "objective reasons", "due to a decrease in production at Russian oil refineries".
The Foreign Intelligence Service predicts that the fuel shortage in Russia will deepen, because most refineries and oil depots are concentrated in the western part of the Russian Federation.
Reminder, Ukrainian drone attacks on enemy refineries have caused fuel shortages in Russia. Russian gas stations often lack popular gasoline grades Ai 92 and Ai 95.
The problems are particularly acute at private gas stations, which are not part of vertically integrated oil companies and have difficulty buying gasoline due to reduced refining and high interest rates.
The shelling of refineries has reduced refining in Russia by nearly a fifth on some days and cut exports from key ports.
This is Ukraine's way of trying to hit the Kremlin's war machine and force Russian dictator Vladimir Putin into peace talks.
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