Long Lines for Gas Shatter the Illusion of Normalcy in Wartime Russia

Scritto il 03/07/2026
da Nataliya Vasilyeva

“Are we in the Soviet Union now?” asked one Russian, stunned and frustrated by the waits at the pumps.Lines at a gas station in Moscow on Tuesday. Attacks on Russian oil infrastructure have caused the kinds of gas shortages that many Russian citizens have not seen in their lifetimes.