The last station selling gasoline in Gelendzhik — a Black Sea resort city in southern Russia — has run dry
As of the morning of August 21, only one gas station in Gelendzhik was selling gasoline: a Lukoil station in the village of Arkhipo-Osipovka. The other stations had only diesel, the city administration said.
By that evening, gasoline had run out in Arkhipo-Osipovka as well, the independent Russian investigative outlet iStories found. A desk clerk at a small hotel next to the Lukoil station told iStories the station had no gasoline left. Drivers said the same in a local chat group they use to share information about where fuel is available.
Tuapse faced a similar shortage. On the morning of August 21, only one of the city’s 14 operating gas stations was selling 95-octane gasoline, and two were selling 92-octane.
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