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Sorry for the average Joe Dmitry, but this needs to happen. And I’m sure some of them are secretly happy about it, maybe even willing to help Ukraine along, from afar.

But here’s an important tidbit:

“This is not the first fuel crisis; it has happened several times before the war,” said Boris Aronstein, an independent oil and gas analyst.

Meaning, Russia’s economy isn’t the most stable at the best of times.

Analysts say one of the industry’s main weaknesses is the lack of any real buffer in domestic petrol production. Output only just covers domestic demand, leaving the system highly vulnerable to disruption.

But, sadly:

Much of the country’s industrial fleet and military equipment runs on diesel rather than petrol, and Russia still has a surplus of it.

then organize and petition your government to leave Ukraine, you nerds. protest if your government is nonresponsive to protests. uprise if if your government is unresponsive to protests. there is a genocide being run by your military

Fuel shortages are being felt most acutely in remote regions, including the far east, southern Russia and the annexed Crimean peninsula, where motorists have been forced to switch to more expensive grades because of shortages of regular A-95 petrol.

It’s unclear what the first region listed is. The context is “Russia,” Ukraine is to its west, and you can see Sarah Palin’s house from the far east (as it’s not capitalised, it is not referring to the Orient as a whole).