1/ Russia is experiencing a deepening gasoline crisis due to Ukrainian drone strikes. New data shows that half of all fuel stations across the country are out of gasoline, with drivers facing hours-long queues and no relief expected for weeks or months. ⬇️ bsky.app
russia: “The gasoline situation has stabilized.” Also russia: a 4 AM gasoline queue in St. Petersburg. Apparently nobody told the locals🙃
2/ Ukraine's escalating drone campaign against Russian oil refineries has caused a worsening gasoline shortage. There were a record number of strikes in August 2026, with 26 refineries hit, roughly double July's hit rate, and more than triple that of May/June. 3/ Major producers hit have included Slavneft-YANOS, NORSI, KINEF, the Perm refinery, TANECO, and refineries in Ryazan, Syzran, Saratov, and Krasnodar Krai. Notably, the Syzran refinery was struck even after Trump announced an "energy truce." bsky.app
🔥 Syzran Oil Refinery
4/ Data from the Russian website gdebenz ("Where's The Gas?") shows a worsening trend of fuel availability: 🔹 Al-92 gasoline was unavailable at 8% of stations on 21 July. This worsened to 52% by 20 August, briefly improved to 33%, and is back up to 45% as of 15 September. 5/ 🔹 Al-92 gasoline was unavailable at 32% of stations on 21 July, worsening to 55% by 20 August, before dipping to 38% by 29 August and is now back to 53% as of 15 September. 6/ 🔹 Queues have shown a similar pattern, rising from 9-19% of stations in late July/mid-August to 20-27% by 14 September. 7/ 🔹 11-12% of stations also now have sales restrictions, limiting the amount that can be purchased in a single transaction – up from 3.2% in August. 8/ 🔹 Diesel has followed an opposite trajectory, as Russia produces roughly twice as much diesel as it consumes domestically and exports are currently banned. Shortages have fallen to 10-20% of stations since late August (down from 55-85% in late July/early August). 9/ The shortages and queues are occurring nationwide. St. Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad Region are the worst-hit, with two-hour-plus queues. 10/ Other affected places include Novorossiysk, Krasnodar, Irkutsk, Perm, Surgut, Rostov, Arkhangelsk, and the Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi okrugs. 11/ The broader outlook for road users is bleak. The International Energy Agency says that Russian refining over the next 18 months will be around 4 million barrels per day, 30% below pre-war levels, due to the cumulative effect of sustained drone strikes and delays to repairs. 11/ Gasoline prices have risen 21% and diesel prices 15.5% since December 2025, according to Rosstat. Analysts expect further price rises regardless of whether attacks stop, partly because the federal budget can no longer fully subsidise refineries. 12/ Ukrainian strikes have also been carefully targeted to damage or destroy key pieces of refining machinery – often foreign-supplied, and therefore no longer available due to sanctions – which is making repairs much more difficult and lengthy to carry out. /end Source: novayagazeta.eu