President Vladimir Putin acknowledged for the first time Sunday that Russia is facing fuel shortages following a wave of attacks from Ukraine.
A viral clip has emerged showing desperate motorists brawling in queues at petrol stations across Russia as Vladimir Putin was forced to acknowledge the country is facing shortages.
In Moscow, two women waiting in a queue were filmed screaming at each other after one accused the other of cutting in line. ‘**** you! I’ll smash your face in!’ one of them shouts.
Another video from the western city of Ryazan shows two men engaging in an intense fistfight outside a petrol station until someone intervenes.
In a third video, filmed in the town of Serov, a woman is seen with a bloodied nose after a man allegedly punched her and violently attacked both her and her companion during a fight over fuel.
This comes after Putin for the first time on Sunday acknowledged that the country was suffering from ‘a certain shortage’ of fuel in an interview published by the Kremlin Sunday, after repeated Ukrainian strikes in their four-year war.
‘As for strikes against critical infrastructure in general, and energy infrastructure in particular, of course these attacks on our infrastructure facilities create problems, that’s obvious,’ said Putin.
‘Right now we’re observing a certain shortage, but it’s not critical.’
The authorities in Russian-annexed Crimea on Friday declared an ’emergency situation’ over fuel shortages and power cuts triggered by Ukrainian attacks on its logistics chains and oil facilities.
