Gasoline is available at fewer than a third of gas stations in Russia, Izvestia reports

Gasoline is available at fewer than a third of gas stations in Russia, Izvestia reports

A new wave of fuel shortages has begun in Russia, the newspaper Izvestia writes. According to the GdeBENZ app, as of August 16 gasoline or diesel was available at 28.1% of gas stations across the country, whereas a week earlier it was 41%.

For example, on August 17 the publication's correspondents checked 21 gas stations in Moscow and the Moscow region: in the end, AI-92 was on sale at seven of them, AI-95 at six, and AI-98 at five. At some stations, almost all grades of gasoline are periodically unavailable, and in some places there is no diesel fuel either.

In addition, queues at some gas stations in recent days were reported at least in Tambov, Nizhny Novgorod, and Smolensk regions, the Moscow region, Yakutia, and Bashkortostan, the Krasnodar region, as well as in Moscow and Yekaterinburg.

🔵This is already the second wave of shortages in recent months. The first began at the end of May and lasted about a month and a half. At the end of July, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that the situation with fuel and its availability at gas stations had improved, but on August 14 the Energy Ministry again reported problems.

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