Detentions of speculators began in Irkutsk, restrictions reached Primorye and Sakha. What happens to fuel shortages?

Vladimir Putin, in an interview with Pavel Zarubin, acknowledged the fuel shortage in Russia and linked it to Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries. But he said the deficit was “not critical.” What's happening in the regions.

Irkutsk police detained and drew up reports on four resellers who were selling fuel at inflated prices. Officials began to stand guard at gas stations along with the police to prevent people from filling cans.

Some gas stations in the Novosibirsk region stopped selling fuel to individuals in order to “work out filling stations under long-term contracts, municipal and state orders.”

The Primorye government has introduced restrictions on the sale of fuel to truck drivers - up to 100 liters per tank in the city and up to 200 liters on the highway. The authorities blamed “unscrupulous consumers” for this. Spilling into canisters was prohibited.

The largest supplier of petroleum products in the Republic of Sakha, the state-owned enterprise Sakhaneftegazsbyt, has limited the sale of gasoline to 30 liters per tank, and diesel to 200 liters.