Gazprom Neft said its stations were "temporarily" limiting sales of gasoline and diesel to 40 liters per vehicle. Tatneft said its stations were limiting gasoline sales to 50 liters and diesel to 60 liters per vehicle.
The Moscow Times noted fuel shortages in Moscow and the surrounding region were first observed last week after new Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries. The worst shortages were for AI-95 gasoline, which, despite rising to RUB120 a liter ($5.4 per gallon), vanished from pumps at Gazprom, Rosneft, and other networks. As of the evening of Aug. 18, AI-95 was available at only one Neftmagistral station in Moscow.
The newspaper wrote that as of Aug. 16, gasoline or diesel
were available at just 28.1% of Russian gas stations, down from 41% a week
earlier. Availability fell sharply in the Volgograd, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg,
Voronezh, Samara, Penza, Saratov, Lipetsk, and Rostov oblasts and in Tatarstan.