No fuel, no patience: Russians endure widening fuel shortages
A widening fuel shortage across Russia is increasingly disrupting ordinary citizens' daily lives. A couple returning to the city of Vologda had to pass four petrol stations before finding one that actually had fuel.
A fuel shortage spreading across Russia is increasingly disrupting the daily lives of ordinary citizens. Yelena and Dmitry, a couple returning to the city of Vologda, roughly 300 miles north of Moscow, from their country plot, had to pass four petrol stations before finally finding one that actually had fuel.
Similar scenes are being reported across different regions, with drivers waiting in hours-long lines and some stations closing entirely during parts of the day. Analysts attribute the shortage to a mismatch between refinery capacity disruptions and rising domestic demand.
Kremlin officials maintain the problem is temporary and that supply will return to normal. But the practical difficulties facing ordinary citizens illustrate how deeply the economic costs of the war are seeping into daily life.
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