Bulgarian economic observer Stanimir Dobrev, together with the OSINT project Tochnyi, showed how the shortage of gasoline was spreading in the regions of the aggressor country russia against the background of Ukraine's strikes on russian oil refining facilities.
Dobrev published the map on his page on X (Twitter).
The analyst color-coded how long ago reports of gasoline shortages in certain russian regions began to come. For example, dark red color indicates the regions where the fuel shortage became known six weeks ago, and pink color - a week ago.
The map shows that the regions in the Far East, as well as some regions in the European part of russia and the Caucasus, were the first to be affected by the fuel crisis.
In his latest post, Dobrev noted that since the last update, five more regions of the russian federation have reported gasoline shortages.
The fuel crisis in russia. Photo: x.com/deifoo.
The analyst points out that adding a region to his map does not mean that the entire region is out of gasoline.
"This does not mean that there is no gasoline in the entire region, but only that there is a shortage at gas stations. Usually, this applies to several districts <...> In some cases, half of the gas stations in the region do not have any type of fuel," Dobrev wrote.
Last Sunday, September 28, the analyst published a video showing how the gasoline shortage has been spreading across the russian federation since mid-August.
Here's a video of how the Russian gasoline crisis has progressed over the past 5 weeks. Tonight on @tochnyi we will spend extra time on discussing the topic. Tune in at 21:00 Kyiv time. pic.twitter.com/ShypOgI18G
- Stanimir Dobrev (@delfoo) September 28, 2025</blockquote
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on September 23, Reuters wrote that Ukraine's strikes on oil refining facilities had caused a fuel crisis in russia.
Against this backdrop, the russian authorities have been forced to extend the ban on gasoline exports. It will last at least until the end of this year.
We also reported that the occupied territories suffer the most from the fuel crisis in russia.
Thus, in the occupied Crimea, every second gas station has suspended its work due to interruptions in fuel supplies.
The day before, it became known that the occupation administration of the peninsula restricted the sale of gasoline to the population.
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