On Thursday, Russia announced that by the end of this year it has prohibited fuel exports to all countries, as petrol pumps across the country and in areas under its profession more and more dry.
In recent months, Ukraine’s attacks have been increased on Russian refineries, which forced the Kremlin to announce and end oil exports.
India, one of the main Russian oil importers, is likely to be influenced because of the ban on Russian fuel.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Thursday that the country will introduce a partial ban on diesel export by the end of the year and extend the existing ban on gasoline exports.
“We will soon extend the ban on gasoline exports by the end of the year and a ban on diesel exports to unsavitles will also be introduced by the end of the year,” Novak said, according to Interfax.
“This will allow us to supply the market with oil products,” he added.
Why does Russia prohibit oil exports?
Initially, Russian officials blamed the lack of oil for “logistics reasons” and stated that gasoline and diesel would start to run again. In recent weeks, however, the lack has deteriorated.
Prime Minister Alexander Novak admitted that, according to the country’s press agency in Russia, there was a “slight lack of oil products”. However, he assured that “the reserves were covered”.
A wave of Ukrainian strikes during the summer hit hit the capacity of processing in several key devices, pushing higher fuel prices higher, and in some regions led to a lack.
The Attachment of the Crimean Peninsula faces lack of fuel due to a “reduction of production volume in Russian refinery”, said the local administration supported in Moscow on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Kyiv hit the main Russian oil refinery in the central region of Bashkottostan and caused a large fire.
Russia is running out of fuel?
According to the Izvestia newspaper, which cited CNN, gasoline pumps in several Russian regions have already begun petrol and diesel. They allow each customer to buy a limited amount of fuel and signal the lack of oil in Russia.
Crimea seems to be the worst, on the southern peninsula that Russia attached from Ukraine in 2014.
According to the CNN quotation of the Kommersant intelligence outlets, half of the petrol pumps in Criema has run out of fuel and is out of activity. The situation is bad enough for the governor to admit the shortage and blame it of the “reduced production” of Russian oil refinery.
Videos and images of social media show long rows of cars outside several petrol pumps that are still running.
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