The only place where there appear to be any actual shortages is Crimea where delivering fuel was always been a logistics problem. These stories about Ukrainian drones affecting Russian oil production have been running for over a year now, but when you look at the actual production numbers it's very clear there is zero visible effect. The whole context for this thread is a Bloomberg article saying that Russia is shipping out oil at record pace now.

[–] cone_zombie@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm telling you my first hand experience in central Russia. There are clearly fuel shortages today, with multiple gas stations I went through having no fuel, or having exuberant prices. I think it's short term also partly because of the media coverage and people buying fuel in advance. In Crimea there were reports of a kilometre queues of people waiting at gas stations to refuel. And they had to introduce quotas of 30 liter per person maximum

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago

Right, you're talking about panic buying, but that's not an indication of actual structural problem. And yeah given the bad media coverage close to election, I can't imagine that's gonna get addressed quickly.