Russian authorities have been forced to call in Cossack guards to keep order at petrol stations as infuriated drivers have lashed out at nationwide fuel shortages caused by Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries.
The attacks, following Russia‘s pounding of Ukrainian power facilities, have forced the world’s third-biggest oil producer to import gasoline from as far away as India.
Long queues of cars now snake back at filling stations across Russia as drivers feel the impact of the Ukrainian strikes, designed to put pressure on Russia to make peace after more than four years of war.
Shortages of petrol and diesel are paralysing Russia
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