“Raids continue in regional municipalities, including private home territories and garage cooperatives. During inspections, serious violations were found – citizens kept large reserves of gasoline in garages, which is strictly prohibited according to fire safety rules,” said the regional head.
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According to M. Vedernikov, administrative protocols were drawn up for all violators. The governor also added screenshots of people’s reports on social networks to his post, where they wrote that they keep fuel cans at home.
The official urged Pskov residents “not to keep gasoline and other flammable liquids in garages and basements,” and also stated that the fuel situation in the region is “gradually stabilizing.” Nevertheless, on the morning of July 20, M. Vedernikov wrote that in most districts “there are still problems” with AI-95 gasoline, reports The Moscow Times.
“In most municipalities, things are still difficult. The most tense situation is in districts where there are only ‘Surgutneftegaz’ gas stations, and in Velikiye Luki, where the supplied fuel is clearly insufficient,” he said.
Earlier in the Pskov region, gasoline at gas stations began to be issued on even and odd days depending on the vehicle’s license plate number, and fuel sales restrictions were introduced at most gas stations.
3.34 euros per liter
M. Vedernikov stated that “Surgutneftegaz” will redistribute 95-octane gasoline in favor of municipalities where there are no or limited numbers of gas stations from other network companies. “Lukoil,” in turn, increased the gasoline sales limit per person from 30 to 40 liters, he says. Earlier, the governor blamed “speculators” for the fuel shortage.
Earlier across Russia, due to a severe fuel shortage caused by strikes by the Ukrainian armed forces on oil refineries, police, Russian Guard, and “volunteer” forces began to be deployed at gas stations. This measure is applied in at least 13 regions.
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In the Irkutsk region, law enforcement officers also began detaining people who, according to authorities, tried to resell gasoline at speculative prices. At the end of June, these prices jumped to 300 rubles per liter (3.34 euros).
“We will kill each other here”
15min reminds that meanwhile in the Russian city of Novosibirsk, the police recently took at least 8 people to the station who caused a conflict because a car, which witnesses associate with the city administration, was served out of turn at a gas station, reports the Freedom Radio platform “Sibir.Realii”.
According to those detained, they waited for several hours to refuel when a car with tinted windows overtook the line and stopped at the pump. Gas station employees called the police, but they detained not the car driver, but the gas station customers who caused the protest.
Residents of Siberia, the Volga region, and Moscow suburbs massively report draconian queues at gas stations, where they have to spend hours.
The fuel shortage in Russia is turning into increasingly sharp conflicts: drivers try to bypass lines at pumps, use other people’s documents granting the right to preferential service, and gasoline is poured out from cars in parking lots, sometimes damaging fuel tanks and other car parts.
“It’s like an apocalypse. Everyone is fighting for survival, soon they will start killing over a liter of gasoline,” described the situation one of the interlocutors living in the Irkutsk region.
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