A journalist from msk1.ru checked the network’s gas stations in the Golyanovo district in eastern Moscow and found no gasoline there. A station employee said that previously the gas station displayed a notice about selling no more than 30 liters per car, but then it was taken down because there was no fuel left. According to him, the station was not given delivery dates, and they only learn about replenishment after the fact.
Before that, the Telegram channel “First of all, well, almost” reported that in the morning a new limit was introduced at Gazprom Neft gas stations in the capital — 30 liters of gasoline per car, although on Saturday it was twice as high. The company’s hotline, which introduced the restriction on gasoline sales in Moscow a month ago, could not say whether there is a citywide limit. They noted that different gas stations usually have different restrictions, and gave the example of a station in Southern Chertanovo, where the limit is 40 liters per person.
The cause of the disruptions was a nighttime strike by Ukrainian drones on the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya. The Moscow Oil Refinery belongs to Gazprom Neft and, according to a source, provided about a third of the capital’s fuel consumption. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that several drones reached the plant’s territory and that an object at the complex was damaged; after this, several large fire hotspots appeared in the area of the enterprise, whose nominal capacity reaches 14 million tons per year.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that as a result of the strike, the AVT-6 primary processing unit, the integrated oil processing unit, and the isomerization unit were hit. Ukrainian military officials also claimed that the enterprise produces motor gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel, fuel oil, and other petroleum products, and is also involved in meeting the needs of Russia’s armed forces. Earlier, the Moscow Oil Refinery had already suspended operations after attacks on June 16 and 18: both primary oil processing units went out of service then. Financial Times wrote that the plant was later restarted, but it was operating at only one-third of its capacity.
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