Gas station in Kyiv. Archival photoMOSCOW, March 26A critical fuel situation has developed in Ukraine, Strana.ua reported, citing Dmitry Leushkin, owner of the Ukrainian fuel company Prime Group. the last two weeks, the remains of fuel at oil depots have been exhausted. He said that gas stations sell ordinary gasoline and diesel under the guise of premium in order to circumvent the markup limit set by the Ukrainian authorities.
"There are few extra volumes in Europe. And those that are are difficult to transport, because logistics is not built, there are difficulties with the railway and all sorts of bureaucratic barriers for the movement of fuel trucks have not been destroyed,” Leushkin noted, adding that Ukraine will face a shortage of fuel in April.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» that the boomerang of sanctions will hit the West itself hard. For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. Europe has no options