Zabaikalsky Drivers Queue 4 Kilometers for Fuel After Drone Strikes Trigger Regional Crisis
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Updated · Meduza · Jul 2
Zabaikalsky Drivers Queue 4 Kilometers for Fuel After Drone Strikes Trigger Regional Crisis
3 articles · Updated · Meduza · Jul 2
Summary
A 4-kilometer line of roughly 600 to 800 cars formed at a Rosneft station in Atamanovka near Chita, according to video verified by Meduza and published July 2.
The queue reflects a fuel crisis that pushed authorities in Russia’s Zabaikalsky region to declare a state of high alert on June 25 after Ukrainian drone strikes hit oil refineries.
Drivers have already been waiting for hours across the region; one resident said on June 30 that he had spent 36 hours in line.
The Atamanovka station is supplied by NNK’s Khabarovsk refinery, a facility Ukraine has not struck, underscoring how refinery attacks elsewhere are disrupting fuel supplies far beyond the direct targets.