Russians fight one another at petrol stations after drone strikes hit Putin’s fuel supply | News World

Motorists are fighting for fuel at petrol stations across Russia after Ukranian drone strikes severely disrupted the country’s oil infrastructure.

Many drivers have reported queuing for hours and even days to refill their vehicles.

Because the domestic impact from Putin’s war continues to be felt, many Russians are starting to activate the president as they feel the squeeze of their on a regular basis lives.

Tanya, 29, was amongst motorists who waited 13 hours to get half a tank of fuel in Siberia.

Referring to Putin, she said: ‘He should stop this senseless conflict and allow us to live normally.’

Some desperate drivers have been reported attempting to leap queues as impatience boils over.

Within the mining town of Serov within the western region of Sverdlovsk Oblast, officers were called after a male driver punched a lady while shouting at several others.

A fight also broke out at a forecourt within the western city of Ryazan.

At one petrol station in Siberia, two women were seen arguing over who was ahead within the line.

One told the opposite: ‘So it’s best to have stayed [in the queue].

‘Why the f*** you left [the queue], there’s a queue, you dumb ass.’

The row descended into chaos as one woman said ‘go f*** yourself’ just for the opposite to threaten to hit them ‘in your f***ing face now’.

In Irkutsk, Siberia, a person wearing jeans and a black t-shirt repeatedly hit a fellow motorist through his automobile window in frustration.

Mafia groups have also sought to capitalise on the shortage, with police in a single region forced to intervene after a cabal were caught reselling fuel at triple its market price.

It comes as Ukrainian forces hit several critical targets, including a drone strike on the Moscow refinery of oil giant Gazprom Neft.

Putin attempted to handle the growing crisis, which has spread to all of Russia’s 83 regions.

He conceded Ukrainian air strikes on infrastructure had caused ‘problems’ for motorists and businesses, but insisted fuel reserves were only 4 per cent down on last 12 months.

‘Unfortunately, there are also queues at [filling] stations, and it’s not all the time possible to seek out the fitting form of gasoline’, he said.

‘And, after all, we understand the difficulties faced by agricultural producers and farms in the summertime period.’

The president pledged to extend supplies, including by sea to Crimea which has almost run dry, after land routes were disrupted by Ukrainian forces.

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