In second death amid Russia’s fuel crisis, a 75-year-old man in Petrozavodsk dies waiting at gas station

An elderly man died while waiting in line at a gas station in Petrozavodsk, the Russian Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti reported, citing eyewitnesses. The man, about 75, died on the morning of June 30 at a gas station on Lososinskoye Highway.

Local residents said the man had paid for his gas but came up “a little short of a full tank.” After he died, the station manager moved his car out of the way and called an ambulance.

Russia’s Interior Ministry confirmed the elderly man’s death to journalists.

This is at least the second death linked to Russia’s fuel crisis, which escalated in May and June. On June 28, a 43-year-old man died near a gas station in Chita, local authorities said. According to media reports, the man had not been waiting in line to fill up but had driven a woman he knew there.

Because of the fuel crisis, residents across Russia’s regions have had to line up at gas stations for hours. In Chita, one resident said he waited for 36 hours.