From Karelia to Kamchatka: Russia rations fuel where drones strike and stockpiles it where they cannot
A drone campaign against refineries has Russians buying gasoline by QR code, license-plate number, and five-hour queue.
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The energy superpower now rations fuel by QR code lottery
Governors negotiating jerry-can quotas. The assemblies voting not to convene. What the fuel crisis looks like from Samara, Pskov, Irkutsk, and Sevastopol.
Russia annexed Crimea to control it. Now it can’t even control the gas station line
Stations open briefly without warning as pump and resale prices pull apart.
Russia’s fuel rationing reaches Siberia as occupied Crimea runs dry
The shortage is spreading region to region, and Russia is importing gasoline by sea.
Russia quietly lets refiners sell lower-grade Euro-3 fuel as drone strikes squeeze supply
A rule eased since last autumn now allows gasoline to contain 15 times the EU sulfur limit, as rationing spreads across Russia.
Fuel shortages reach Moscow and St. Petersburg as Ukraine’s strikes squeeze Russian refining
Filling-station limits, jet-fuel curbs, and farmers short of diesel now span over 25 Russian regions.
FT: American intelligence helped Ukraine attack over a dozen key Russian oil refineries since midsummer
The support allegedly allowed Ukrainian drones to bypass Russian air defenses and damage more than 1mn barrels of daily refining capacity.