Motorists on the main highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg are waiting three hours or longer at gas stations, according to reports. The queues follow a week of widening fuel supply disruptions across Russian regions.
Queues of three hours or more for fuel are reported on the M11 highway linking Moscow and St. Petersburg on Tuesday afternoon, according to local reports. The bottleneck reflects growing supply strain in Russia's fuel retail network this week.
As The Zioneer reported on June 15, fuel-sale restrictions have been imposed in several regions amid local supply disruptions, though the Russian Fuel Union denied a Moscow-area shortage. On June 5, severe shortages were described in Crimea, Donbas, and other regions with fueling restrictions for drivers in Moscow and St. Petersburg alike.
The current queue on the country's busiest highway suggests the disruption has now reached a visible consumer-level crunch in central Russia. No official comment on the M11 situation has been published as of Tuesday evening.
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