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Over 300 drone strikes on Russian oil infrastructure have slashed refining capacity and triggered rationing across nearly all of the country's 83 regions
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Russia is one of the world’s largest crude oil exporters. It is now importing gasoline from India. That single fact captures the severity of what Ukraine’s sustained drone campaign has done to Russian refining infrastructure.
A relentless series of strikes on oil refineries and fuel depots has carved an estimated 15% to 40% out of Russia’s domestic refining capacity, depending on the source and timing of the assessment. The result is a fuel crisis that has spread across nearly all of Russia’s 83 regions, with local governments resorting to rationing, extended queues at gas stations, and in some cases, temporary states of emergency.
