‘No exceptions’: The governor of Russia’s Leningrad region tells his own officials to line up for gas like everyone else
Alexander Drozdenko, the governor of Russia’s Leningrad region, has ordered limits on fueling government vehicles. Officials will be held to the same limits as local residents.
The authorities “must set an example,” Drozdenko said, when they are asking residents to be understanding about “temporary difficulties with fuel.”
“No exceptions. This is enough to handle current tasks, and if something isn’t enough, there’s always video calls. There will be no unnecessary trips,” Drozdenko said.
In St. Petersburg, no such restrictions have been imposed on officials, but government vehicles refuel under the standard procedure at Rosneft gas stations, sources told the Telegram news channel Rotonda. On a hotline, however, a Rotonda journalist was told that government vehicles should be allowed to skip the line, the channel reported.
In the Leningrad region, gas station chains set their own fuel limits, the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reported. In late June, for example, Lukoil was selling no more than 30 liters per customer.
Russia began restricting fuel sales amid a fuel crisis that has worsened because of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil facilities.
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