Putin considers the complications of the Russian fuel market “temporary”.

“Once again, I want to emphasize that the difficulties that are created for us in the fuel market are certainly of a temporary nature and are not able to affect the economic dynamics,” the head of the Russian Federation said, according to TASS, opening the consultation dedicated to economic issues.

In recent weeks, as a result of Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, particularly oil refineries, there has been a severe fuel shortage in Russia, accompanied by long lines at gas stations, record-high gasoline prices, incidents between Russians waiting in lines for hours, and even incidents of physical violence.

Official Kiev claims that it has managed to seriously damage or completely disable 16 of Russia’s 38 oil refineries.

Yesterday, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak claimed that “the situation in the domestic fuel market has partially stabilized”.

International media reported a few weeks ago that Russia has started importing gasoline from India by sea.

It is also reported about the import of gasoline from Belarus. “Vedomosti”, referring to the data of the Price Index Center, writes that from June 1 to 25, 141,000 tons of gasoline were supplied from Belarus to Russia, almost 2.5 times more than during the whole of May. In June of last year, the import was only 1000 tons.