In the Tver region, restrictions were imposed on the sale of gasoline at Surgutneftegaz and Tatneft gas stations, I mentioned June 19 at the Regional Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The letter stated that corporate customers can refuel without restrictions. The next day in the department male“The work has been completed” on managing all gas station networks. The Ministry of Industry and Trade added that gasoline is currently sold at all gas stations, but at some gas stations there are “temporary interruptions in work,” including “increased demand from consumers.”
On social networks, people said that we are talking about 20-30 liter limits and also complained about the closure of Rosneft gas stations, Notes “an agency”.
Governor Igor Artamonov admitted that there was also a shortage in the Lipetsk region. He wrote that he drove around the region and discovered “outages in certain types of fuel” at a number of gas stations in Yelets and Lipetsk and the regions. “This creates an increasing load on gas stations where fuel is available,” the governor explained. The governor explained that waiting lines are forming, adding that fuel supplies are continuing.
Artamonov asked the residents of the region to “refuel based on current needs,” because purchasing fuel for future use increases the load on gas stations and “gasoline drives faster wherever it is.”
The gasoline crisis in Russia began after Ukraine intensified its attacks on oil refineries, as well as fuel tankers and trucks supplying Crimea along the P-280 Novorossiya highway. As a result, the most difficult situation was in Crimea: since mid-May, gasoline began to be sold there using coupons, and on June 21, sales stopped at all.
In central Russia, reports of new restrictions also appear periodically. On June 16, gas station chain Tatneft restricted the sale of gasoline at all gas stations across the country. The next day, the company lifted restrictions on the sale of AI-92 gasoline and diesel fuel, but left in place restrictions on the sale of AI-95 – no more than 30 liters per person.