- Russians are waiting in long, sometimes 18-hour gas-station lines (in Irkutsk officials even promised portable toilets); motorists are sharing food and toys while queues snarl daily life.
- Ukraine’s long-range drone strikes have forced about a quarter or more of Russia’s refining capacity offline — the damage has been called “unprecedented.”
- The Kremlin has banned gasoline and jet-fuel exports and even imported fuel from India; Crimea has halted most public fuel sales as prices rise and fights break out.
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