Frustrations over Russia’s petrol shortages have run so deep that fistfights have broken out among exasperated motorists waiting for hours in line.

Frustrations over Russia’s petrol shortages have run so deep that fistfights have broken out among exasperated motorists waiting for hours in line.

The city of Sevastopol, on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, was left without electricity on Monday following a Ukrainian attack on energy infrastructure.

Shortages of petrol and diesel are paralysing Russia with gargantuan queues at filling stations where prices are spiralling, and people are losing patience.