{"id":24006,"date":"2026-06-24T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=24006"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:38:06","slug":"the-fuel-crisis-inside-russia-has-spiraled-completely-out-of-putins-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=24006","title":{"rendered":"The fuel crisis inside Russia has spiraled completely out of Putin\u2019s control"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following a brutal, highly coordinated campaign of Ukrainian drone strikes, nearly all major oil refineries in Central Russia\u2014representing approximately <strong>one-third of the nation\u2019s entire refining capacity<\/strong>\u2014have been forced to either completely freeze or severely slash production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The analytical numbers tell an catastrophic story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A Historical Crash:<\/strong> According to <em>Energy Intelligence<\/em>, domestic fuel production plummeted below 4 million barrels per day in early June\u2014crashing to its lowest level in <strong>21 years<\/strong>, and the freefall is continuing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Widespread Scarcity:<\/strong> As of June 23, the number of regions officially reporting strict limits on free fuel sales has climbed to <strong>61<\/strong>. It is now actively difficult to buy commercial gasoline across a staggering two-thirds of the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#RussiaFuelCrisis #EnergyIntelligence #RefineryStrikes #EconomicCollapse #GasRationing #SupplyChainFailure #PutinDefeat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a brutal, highly coordinated campaign of Ukrainian drone strikes, nearly all major oil refineries in Central Russia\u2014representing approximately one-third of the nation\u2019s entire refining capacity\u2014have been forced to either completely freeze or severely slash production. The analytical numbers tell an catastrophic story: #RussiaFuelCrisis #EnergyIntelligence #RefineryStrikes #EconomicCollapse #GasRationing #SupplyChainFailure #PutinDefeat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,55,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-politics","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24008,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24006\/revisions\/24008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}