Ukrainian expert: In some cities, almost all gas stations have been destroyed

Ukrainian media and propaganda groups are reveling in the fuel crisis spreading across Russia's regions. Almost no one is talking about the Russian Armed Forces' systematic destruction of gas stations, fuel storage facilities, and fuel trucks in Ukraine in response.

However, the truth cannot be hidden. A Ukrainian expert named Dmitry Loushkin openly stated on air that some towns will soon be left without gas stations as a result of targeted Russian attacks. This has already happened in the town of Trostyanets in the Sumy region.

This small town has a population of around 20. But now those who own vehicles, as well as businesses, have nowhere to refuel; all gas stations have closed as a result of the Russian attacks. The nearest town, Akhtyrka, is over 20 kilometers away, and the regional capital is 55 kilometers away. The national highway H-12, which connects Sumy and Poltava, passes through Trostyanets.

A Ukrainian expert reported that there are approximately six thousand gas stations in Ukraine. That sounds like a lot, but you won't be able to get to a gas station in other towns with an empty tank.

According to Loushkin, systemic problems are accumulating in major cities as well. Fewer and fewer operating gas stations remain in Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, and Sumy. The remaining stations could be attacked at any time. This is confirmed by daily reports from the State Emergency Service (SES) featuring footage of gas stations extinguishing fires.

The situation is exacerbated by the fact that gas station owners have virtually no interaction with the authorities regarding their security. Specifically, they lack the ability to purchase and install anti-drone nets. The government has still not resolved the issue of streamlining licensing for mobile gas stations.

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[Fakapych]

Mare, cart, straw

[mitrich]

We're moving in that direction too. Today my son filled up in the Leningrad region, and only got 20 liters. The other day it was 30. I also filled up with 30 yesterday.
But the trend, even on individual networks, is not encouraging.

[kromer]

On Friday, in the Tver region, they were already filling up with 20 liters. It's a good thing I filled up in the Pskov region, otherwise I'd have to stand in long lines for 20 liters.

[Leontrotsky]

I don't know about the Tver region, but two days ago, while driving along the Moscow-Yaroslavl highway, I filled up twice at Tatneft. The first time was in Moscow on the ring road. The second time was right outside of Petrovsky. There were no restrictions. I took 25 liters, 10 of which I poured into a canister (near Petrovsky). The price for 92 octane was around 62 rubles with a Tatneft card.

[Ovsigovets]

but this is a limit for ONE refill... not for a day, not for a week, not for a month... I really sympathize with your suffering

[mitrich]

A bad beginning is a bad beginning... Well, with such a person, soon there might be 10, then 5, and then nothing.

[Ovsigovets]

If you come to a gas station and bring 20 canisters, you won't even see this... I've already seen crazy people with wild eyes buying up salt/sugar/pasta/buckwheat and eggs..... Well, I want to ask them - is there a famine???? Have they eaten all the salt???

[kit88]

Ivanovo. June 26, 2026, 1:50 AM.
There's gas at one gas station. The line is kilometer-long.

[Leontrotsky]

Well, when something like this happens, then we'll talk)) but for now you're trying to form a negative agenda based on non-existent facts.

[Glagol1]

There's nothing left in Crimea except the military and the public sector. For now, the winners are those who drive on gas. They're still providing it, although the price has gone up. But gas will be a thing too! What a theater of the absurd: the number one gas producer in the world will have rationed sales to the public. However, with oil (gasoline and diesel), the theater is already in full swing. Even in regions far from the front.

[Leontrotsky]

The suffering is truly immense. Instead of 30 liters, pour in 20. This reminds me of the suffering of the French during World War II. When, instead of real coffee, they settled for ersatz coffee. And then, based on the hardships they endured and the victories they achieved, they put themselves on par with the USSR.

[Ovsigovets]

Go and fill up with 30 today, 30 tomorrow, and 30 the day after tomorrow...the main thing is that the tank doesn't burst...or you can even fill up with 30 driving to work, and then from work

[Rakitin]

After standing for a couple of hours...

[Ovsigovets]

I can't speak for the whole of Russia, but I can speak for the Belgorod region (my brother lives there and he has an iron horse) and about Murmansk (I live there myself)......there are no lines at gas stations... but where the insane start coming to gas stations with cubic tanks, there they will definitely be

[Rakitin]

Well, don't even think about it. In our Saratov region (just in case, we have our own refinery with an 8 million tonne annual capacity, which hasn't been completely squandered yet – I don't think it'll last long, as the neighboring refineries in Volgograd and Syzran have been "offline" for a couple of months already), gasoline sales in canisters have been banned for two weeks. Since Monday, they've been allowing a maximum of 30 litres per tank, and since yesterday, 20 litres. Of the 10 gas stations, only one has fuel, the queues are 1-2 km long, requiring up to two hours of waiting, and there's no guarantee there'll be more gas when you get to the end of your line. That's if you're talking about national chains with the "old price." You can buy gasoline without waiting at smaller stations, but it's double the price (AI-92 from 110 to 120 rubles) and the quality is unknown.
Otherwise, everything's fine. And the "main reason" isn't the bald-faced gunman in Moscow, but the "panic-mongers on the ground"... And yes, the panicking pilots even stashed jet fuel in canisters—it's also out of stock... So we'll win!

[rs777]

Haystacks can also be burned.

[cat Crush]

Yes, yes - that's a good suggestion. Fire them up with Iskanders. What a fireworks display that would be!

[fruc]

.....soon there will be no gas stations left at all.

They're not even necessary. You can just dump fuel from tankers and quickly change your location.

[Geosun]

Quote: frruc

It is possible to spill fuel from fuel trucks

Maybe in a village mode, but imagine wandering tankers in a city mode, and what about a region? And all the cars moving behind the individual tankers.

[fruc]

Geosun
Yes, in village mode.

The Xoxles manage to do this on a national scale.

[belost79]

"They are not needed."
They're needed. Gas stations in Ukraine are used as fuel depots. A fuel truck arrives, dumps fuel, and then goes to Romania for refills. Draining fuel from a fuel truck to customers takes time. It causes significant downtime. Their number needs to be increased not by a multiple, but by an order of magnitude.

[alexoff]

Well, when geraniums start flying around the Ukroneftebaza, it turns out that a huge fire is starting. Apparently, they're transporting them from Romania to the oil depots by train.

[Tagan]

‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia has destroyed more than 150 gas stations in Ukraine over the past two months.

▪️Former Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Pivovarsky also reported that oil depots and other fuel infrastructure facilities are attacked almost weekly.
▪️Furthermore, he reported that the Ukrainian market is already preparing for a challenging winter. Stockpiles are being built, logistics capacity is being reserved, contracts are being signed, and this is also driving up fuel prices.

[kromer]

Military equipment is refueled centrally, but for civilians this is currently a problem.

[Incvizitor]

There are no civilians there; they have all been paying war taxes since 2015.

[Essex62]

So, we don't have it either? We pay taxes too. So, all Russian citizens are combatants and legitimate targets? There's a war going on, right?

[Incvizitor]

Legitimate targets for an illegitimate junta? It's like saying that everyone who fights against ISIS is a legitimate target for these terrorists. ISIS has the right to terrorize.

[Essex62]

The right to terror? A strange formulation. Such a right comes from force, and the West has that force. It demonstrates it daily. Politically, economically, and militarily. Do they have the right? As for the outskirts, they consider themselves a country. Russian profiteers gave them this opportunity by legitimizing the 14 coup, and even earlier, the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Accords.
So you think that all citizens of the illegal Banderastan formation are guilty of being dipped in this substance without asking and that they should be killed because they are taxes.
Do they pay? Children, women, and old Russians? Will you be able to work just to live and eat without paying taxes? Won't you end up in jail if you maliciously refuse?

[alexoff]

Well, I understand it's spectacular, but is it really true that there was nowhere else to use those 150 geraniums? Maybe if they were planted all at once and connected to a 750 kV transformer near Kyiv, it would have been more useful?

[Dart2027]

Quote from alexoff

Well, of course I understand that it’s spectacular, but is it really true that there was nowhere else to use these hundred and fifty geraniums?

And if they were used against the transformer there would be whining that it was not for the gas station.

[alexoff]

If there was a 750 kV transformer, then in a significant part of Ukraine, gas stations would stop working for a long time.

[Dart2027]

Quote from alexoff

If there was a 750 kV transformer then

Would the gas run out?

[alexoff]

Everything would have run out: gasoline, diesel, natural gas, and electricity. But you, as an expert, hardly understand the difference between main transformers and a gas station in an urban-type settlement; the main thing is to keep the boss happy.
By the way, with your love of throwing yourself into defense of management, have you managed to rise to such heights? We value such people very highly, after all.

[Dart2027]

Quote from alexoff

Everything would run out: petrol, diesel, gas, and lighting.

Are they now filling gasoline and diesel through wires?

[alexoff]

It can't be lifted up without wires, but you're obviously not an electrical expert.

[Dart2027]

Quote from alexoff

but you apparently are not an electrical expert

Backup power supply systems at gas stations ensure the uninterrupted operation of fuel dispensers, pumps, control systems, and fire safety systems during power outages. They are most often built using diesel generators (DGS) with a capacity of 30 to 240 kW and industrial uninterruptible power supplies (UPS).

Will there be more nonsense?

[alexoff]

It would be interesting to see how long they last. I understand you think there's no need to remove the electricity because it's useless, so let's just say that.

[Dart2027]

Quote from alexoff

It would be interesting to see how long they work.

That is, the attempt at a primitive lie did not work.

Quote from alexoff

It would be interesting to see how long they last. I understand you think there's no need to remove the electricity because it's useless, so let's just say that.

It's necessary. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't touch the gas station, as you'd like. So, are you a communist or a member of the Central Asian Party?

[alexoff]

Quote: Dart2027

That is, the attempt at a primitive lie did not work.

So you don't know? By the way, tell me—how will the closure of gas stations prevent the same fuel from being delivered in the same tankers and sold to the public in measured quantities? Although I know for a fact—you have nothing to say.

Quote: Dart2027

It's necessary. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't touch the gas station, as you'd like.

But is the gas station more important? Electricity might be better, but what if ten, twenty, or thirty cubic meters of fuel burned in a barrel underground? Am I right in thinking that fuel worth several million rubles is more valuable to you than a power outage for the entire region?

Quote: Dart2027

So are you a communist or a CIPSOT?

So, are you incompetent or do you always support your boss's decisions? Have you managed to advance your career far?

[Dart2027]

Quote from alexoff

So you don't know? By the way, tell me—how will the closure of gas stations prevent the same fuel from being delivered in the same tankers and sold to the public in measured quantities?

So, it's impossible to dispute the fact that the gas stations were destroyed. Just tell me how they're going to distribute it in thousands of tankers 25/7.

Quote from alexoff

but is gas station more important?

So, it's impossible to dispute the fact that the gas stations were destroyed. You don't even want to find out how our guys attacked the substations. However, this article is about something else, so you should complain about the substations.

Quote from alexoff

So you can't count or are you always in favor of your superiors' decisions?

What does the bill have to do with it? So, are you a communist or a member of the Central Asian Party?

[alexoff]

This means that it is impossible to dispute the fact that the gas station was destroyed.

What? Are you completely out of your mind? Are you going to tell me I can't dispute that the sun rises in the east?

Well, tell me how they will deliver it in thousands of fuel trucks 25/7.

Did gas stations used to deliver gasoline, like restaurants deliver food? What planet are you even from? People drive to gas stations themselves to get fuel, haven't you ever seen that? They'll come to the barrel; the fuel tank costs less than a million rubles.

You don't want to find out for yourself how our guys hit the substations.

What are you saying? Probably 750 kW near Kyiv?

What does the bill have to do with it?

I see, war isn't math for you, you don't have to think about it.

So are you a communist or a CIPSOT?

So are you a tsipsota or just someone who likes to kiss up to the boss?

[Dart2027]

Quote from alexoff

Are you going to write now that I cannot dispute that the sun rises in the east?

Don't remember what you wrote?

Quote from alexoff

It would be interesting to see how long they work.

Well, since the destroyed gas stations definitely cannot work, then what was meant?

Quote from alexoff

What are you saying? Probably 750 kW near Kyiv?

Russian forces on Thursday struck three key 750 kV electrical substations in Ukraine, which play a vital role in distributing electricity from nuclear power plants.
https://rg.ru/2024/11/28/raskryty-posledstviia-moshchnogo-udara-po-elektropodstanciiam-750-kv-na-ukraine.html
That means they've been hitting them since 2024, you liar.

Quote from alexoff

I see, war is not mathematics for you

Said the man who urges us to rely on chance.

Quote from alexoff

So are you a tsipsota or just someone who likes to kiss up to the boss?

So, are you a communist or a TsIPSOTa member? Do you root for your "brothers," or are you simply unable to accept the fact that communism has been consigned to the dustbin of history?

[Vadim Topal Pasha]

You wouldn't have disgraced yourself; you could have simply finished eight grades of a very average Soviet school. And don't wave around the "victim of the Unified State Exam and the Bologna system" certificate! :)

[Dart2027]

Quote: Vadim Topal-Pasha

You wouldn't have disgraced yourself, but would have simply finished eight grades of a very average Soviet school.

I graduated from them, unlike some others.

[Vadim Topal Pasha]

As Nemirovich said to his friend and comrade Danchenko, "I don't trust this Stanislavsky. He's so murky!" (C) /laughs mockingly/ :)

[Dart2027]

Quote: Vadim Topal-Pasha

As Nemirovich told his friend and comrade Danchenko

Quote: Dart2027

Backup power supply systems at gas stations ensure the uninterrupted operation of fuel dispensers, pumps, control systems, and fire safety systems during power outages. They are most often built using diesel generators (DGS) with a capacity of 30 to 240 kW and industrial uninterruptible power supplies (UPS).

Will there be more nonsense?

[Ovsigovets]

The fact is that this is all for the good of us... the destruction of substations and the destruction of gas stations... all that junk that's a minus is a plus for us... and you're just being picky.

[alexoff]

The supply of precision weapons is limited. Destroying a gas station in a godforsaken town in Sumy Oblast is not the same as destroying a locomotive or a railway substation.

[Ovsigovets]

and yet this does not change the fact that everything that is a minus for us is a plus for us... it is not for me or you to set the priority of goals

[Dart2027]

Quote from alexoff

The number of precision weapons is limited.

Quote from alexoff

The especially brilliant Dart2007 is unaware that military affairs do not operate with 100% probabilities and even a spear strike has the probabilistic nature of hitting vital organs.

The especially brilliant alexoff (Alexander) first calls for shooting on the principle of maybe it will hit, and the next day complains that expensive weapons are limited.

The main thing is to whine that everything is bad.

[alexoff]

Quote: Dart2027

The especially brilliant alexoff (Alexander) first calls for shooting on the principle of maybe it will hit, and the next day complains that expensive weapons are limited.

Apparently, for Dart2007, the idea that goals differ in importance is too complex

[Dart2027]

Quote from alexoff

Apparently, for Dart2007, the idea is that goals differ in importance.

Is importance an excuse to whine under every article that we are destroying the wrong thing?

Quote: Dart2027

The main thing is to whine that everything is bad.

[alexoff]

Is it important to you that no one whines, otherwise you start to have some kind of mental problems?

[Dart2027]

Quote from alexoff

It's important to you that no one whines.

That is, the goal is precisely whining.

[alexoff]

So you have mental problems, remember.

[Dart2027]

Quote from alexoff

That is, you have

That is, the goal is precisely whining.

[alexoff]

Why don't I see your comments in the "Opinions" section of the articles? What whining about management being out of touch and slapping gas stations on the head? You're the main fighter here against whining and the love of the boss's decisions. We need to show everyone that they're wrong and always whining, they love to whine. The goal is whining, but instead, we should be celebrating and dancing, telling everyone how everyone in Ukraine will now be running around with gas cans in their hands.

[Dart2027]

Quote from alexoff

You are the main fighter here against whining and love for the boss's decisions, we need to show everyone that they are wrong and always whine, they love to whine, the goal is whining, but on the contrary, we should be happy and dancing, telling how now everyone in Ukraine will be running around with canisters in their hands

That is, the goal is whining, and everything else is unimportant.

[poquello]

Quote from alexoff

The supply of precision weapons is limited. Destroying a gas station in a godforsaken town in Sumy Oblast is not the same as destroying a locomotive or a railway substation.

Instead of screeching, you could have asked if our locomotives are being taken out in droves there, the article is just about gas stations

[Essex62]

It would do no good to seal off their supplies from Europe. They'll quickly deflate.

[alexoff]

We shouldn't have gone to Kyiv, but to the Lviv region from Brest. Our forces weren't there, so we wouldn't have to be shy and destroy all supply routes, and by the end of March 2022, the Ukrainian army would have collapsed.

[Essex62]

So, my godfather asked me to help him in Kyiv specifically. No one was aiming to bring the outskirts home. And what kind of bastards were they then? A gang of Nazis in Donbas, that's all the Ukrainian Armed Forces were.

[Rakitin]

The price of Geranium is 1,5 million rubles, the price of gas station fuel included is from 100 million rubles. The exchange is fair.

[alexoff]

Whose price tag is that? A local businessman's? Ten to twenty cubic meters of fuel will burn at the gas station, at a price of 120 rubles, 1,2-2,4 million. What else is so important there, buried tanks? Meters, a cash register? A little shop selling chewing gum and instant noodles? In a couple of days, a fuel truck will arrive, pour it into all sorts of canisters and cans, and the locals will be measuring out diesel by the bucketful. Their fuel source hasn't disappeared.

[Rakitin]

Well, actually, a mid-sized gas station carries at least three types of fuel. And if you take the remaining 20 cubic meters of fuel for each, that's already over 6 million rubles. In reality, it's more, since a single bus or long-haul truck can consume between 200 and 500 liters of diesel fuel at a time, meaning there's about 50 cubic meters of diesel there, so you don't have to masturbate every 2-3 hours to get fuel. So, just for fuel, that's 10 million rubles. They usually charge you when you drain the fuel, which means less for the fuel truck (20-30 million rubles). Tankers, dispensers, pumps, and a store with inventory—that's another 30 million rubles. Another ten and at least a year of work—obtaining permits for the right to operate—and all that is wiped out when the gas station burns down. No matter how you look at it, even an average gas station with 4-6 pumps is about 100m, while a large one that also sells methane and has fuel stations will be over 200m. That's how it goes.

[Earl]

Along with the destruction of gas stations, fuel depots, and fuel tankers, it would be interesting to also destroy the Galushka banking system, in order to bring the Ragulya closer to the coveted decommunization, by transferring them from cars to pigs and forcing them to pay in kind instead of money.

[mixpetroff]

There is no gasoline on the M-10 from Valdai to Vyshny Volochok.

[Incvizitor]

Well, of course, it’s better to knock out thousands of gas stations than several nuclear power plants, so that these gas stations also stop working.

[Maks1995]

What, the anger is expectedly growing...
Gas stations, transport vehicles...
What else will they come up with?

The Grandmaster's HPP is in effect...

[alexboguslavski]

We have gas stations that are intact, but there is no gasoline, and if there is, it costs a pretty penny.

And canisters are enemies of the people.

This morning, another gas station used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces was hit in the village of Krolevets in Sumy Oblast.

[alexboguslavski]

Ukrainian media outlets are publishing footage of another gas station destroyed by a Russian air strike on the Zaporizhzhia-Dnipro highway.

[Fangaro]

Quote from kromer

On Friday, in the Tver region, they were already filling up with 20 liters. It's a good thing I filled up in the Pskov region, otherwise I'd have to stand in long lines for 20 liters.

So that's who it is! And the Pskov people are probably still glaring at the Estonians.
/s

[Fangaro]

Quote: Phrases

There's a huge difference in their actions. On the Western gang's side, they're systematic and long-term, while on the peace and goodness side, everything's a bit of a gamble, maybe it'll do, or worse. They're spending money on internet blocking and empty propaganda that would be enough to completely seal off the skies over the regions with a serious air defense system, not with machine guns and carts. But they continue to fire cannonballs at sparrows without any coherent strategy.

Well, you don't believe that it's possible to "tightly close the skies over regions with serious air defense"?
It may be stupid, but how much do a thousand uncontrolled drones flying "there," meaning here, cost, and how much does an air defense system cost that would destroy all thousand?
Personal opinion... Those who write that the best air defense is tanks at enemy airfields are still right.
And the best air defense is a strong economy that prevents weak "friends" from making mistakes.

[snow mountain]

Quote: Earl

Along with the destruction of gas stations, fuel depots and fuel tankers, it would be interesting to destroy the Galushka banking system as well.

Ukraine must be destroyed. That's all!

[Essex62]

What do you mean? Change the government or destroy them? How many million of them are left? 25-30 Russians and a handful of raguls, all smashed to bits? Bandershtad isn't just a bandit; he was created and used as a battering ram by the West. And they'll be only too happy if we quickly and easily carry out the drawn-out destruction of our nation for them.

[igorbrsv]

Nobody asks where we get fuel on the front lines. Well, you have nothing to fill your car with. And do you think we fly? I won't write any more. I'll leave this as a teaser.
We're building dugouts on the front lines. We need chainsaws for that. They need gasoline. It's cool and damp in the dugouts, we need independent heaters, and we don't have a centralized food supply. They unload food from semi-trailers once a week. We drink lake or river water. Whatever we can get. Are you right in thinking we're in this for the money? Fine. We'll see what happens to you when we die. But we're already on high.

[Andrey Petrov]

Some expert said so. Why don't we see videos of tons of cars at gas stations in Kyiv?!! No one's really complaining, except for some incomprehensible expert. The bridge across the bay remains a reliable supplier of fuel to Ukraine.

[Glagol1]

A simple and clear explanation for why we're fighting ineffectively. Bombing a gas station is like breaking a fingernail. It's unpleasant, unsightly, but it doesn't really affect anything. We need to attack oil depots, storage facilities, railway hubs, bridges, and ports—then there won't be any fuel. And the gas stations will stand there, neatly closed and intact. Why break an enemy's fingernail when you can chop off a hand—and then all their nails will be gone? But no! We're banging our heads against a blank wall and rejoicing like children over a burned-out gas station in the middle of nowhere. We'll fight some more!

[the same doctor]

Gas stations destroyed? And have the attacks on our country stopped? No! That means we're hitting the wrong targets. Those responsible for choosing the targets must be punished and brought to justice.