Putin backs additional fuel, airfare, and ferry support for exclave Kaliningrad as gasoline lines grow across the rest of Russia
At a meeting in Moscow, Kaliningrad Governor Alexei Besprozvannykh asked Vladimir Putin to prioritize additional fuel deliveries to the exclave, and the president agreed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Putin also backed the governor’s requests to contribute federal funds to airfares for Kaliningrad residents — a traditional form of subsidy, in Peskov’s words — and to procure more ferries for the region.
Since the end of May, Russia’s fuel crisis has worsened amid intensifying Ukrainian drone attacks on oil refineries. Almost all regions of the country have capped gasoline and diesel sales. In some areas, Russians have been forced to drive from station to station in search of fuel and wait in lines for hours. In Kaliningrad, limits on fuel sales took effect on June 25.
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