00:02Petrol was available at fewer than 3 in 10 petrol stations across Russia on Wednesday.
00:08It is the latest sign that a second wave of fuel shortages is hitting harder than the first,
00:13with queues forming at pumps in Moscow for the first time.
00:17Fuel restrictions, including limits on the volume sold per customer,
00:21QR-based rationing and odd even number plate schemes,
00:25were in place in nearly all regions as of last Saturday.
00:28The crisis is the direct result of Kiev's sustained drone campaign against Russian oil infrastructure
00:34in a bid to weaken its war machine amid Moscow's ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
00:40In the first two weeks of August alone, nearly a dozen more facilities were hit.
00:45Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged the shortage at the end of July, describing it as non-critical.
00:52On Wednesday, Putin insisted that there are no critical consequences from the strikes,
00:56while also admitting they have been causing damage.
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