Putin's Fuel Crisis Is Spreading Fast - Professor Gerdes Explains 🇺🇦

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Russia's fuel crisis is spreading from occupied Crimea into Moscow, St. Petersburg, Belgorod, Kursk, occupied Luhansk, and other regions after repeated Ukrainian strikes on refineries, fuel tankers, ferries, logistics routes, and energy infrastructure. The video follows the crisis day by day from June 1 through June 6, showing how fuel shortages, rationing, black market gasoline, damaged rail ferries, unsafe roads, and drone attacks on supply trucks are disrupting Russian-occupied territories and exposing the limits of Moscow's control.

The discussion also connects the fuel crisis to Russia's wider economic pressure: refinery runs falling to a 16-year low, the budget deficit growing despite higher oil revenue, military spending becoming harder to sustain, electricity exports to China weakening, St. Petersburg forum embarrassment, missing economic officials, business closures, medical shortages, food panic, and Putin's claim that Russia's economy has merely fallen to Europe's level. The result is a picture of a war economy under pressure from both Ukrainian strikes and Russia's own structural weaknesses.

00:00 Russia Starts Running Out of Gas
00:18 Ukraine's Refinery Strikes Hit Record Levels
00:45 Crimea's Fuel Crisis and Collapsing Logistics
02:26 The Kremlin Starts Preparing Russians for Bad News
03:01 Gas Lines, Horse Taxis, and Black Market Fuel
04:26 Oil Revenue Spikes but the Budget Still Bleeds
06:28 War Spending and China's Energy Shift Add Pressure
07:24 Fuel Limits Reach Moscow and Other Russian Regions
09:37 Coupons, Empty Pumps, and Medical Shortages
10:32 St. Petersburg Forum Exposes the Economic Reality
12:43 Refining Collapse and Regional Fuel Restrictions
14:20 Siphoned Gas, Drone Blockades, and Business Closures
16:11 Coupon Fuel Turns Into Food Panic
17:09 Putin Denies the Economic Damage
18:20 Contraband Gas Shows the Real Price of the Crisis