{"id":24241,"date":"2026-06-25T14:49:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=24241"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:49:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:49:39","slug":"every-pump-is-dry-the-true-cost-of-the-invasion-is-hitting-2-3-of-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=24241","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Every pump is dry.&#8221; The true cost of the invasion is hitting 2\/3 of Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The facade of stability in Moscow is officially dead. Russia&#8217;s domestic energy network is facing a structural meltdown, with an unprecedented 78 regions currently reporting acute fuel deficits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Reality Matrix: Local governments in 29 regions have formally declared a crisis and capped fuel sales to civilians. Elsewhere, the state is desperately trying to mask the shortage, but citizens are documenting endless traffic lines and empty stations on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a global energy superpower loses the basic ability to refine and distribute gasoline to its own people, the war economy has fundamentally broken down. How much more of Russia&#8217;s future will be sacrificed before you stop this war, Mr. Putin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The facade of stability in Moscow is officially dead. Russia&#8217;s domestic energy network is facing a structural meltdown, with an unprecedented 78 regions currently reporting acute fuel deficits. The Reality Matrix: Local governments in 29 regions have formally declared a crisis and capped fuel sales to civilians. Elsewhere, the state is desperately trying to mask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,55,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24241","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\/24241","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=24241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24243,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24241\/revisions\/24243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}