"No impact on the course of the war" – Ukrainian Armed Forces officer on gasoline problems in Crimea
The gasoline shortage at Crimean gas stations due to Ukrainian drone strikes on fuel supply routes will not pose any problems for the Russian army.
This was stated in a conversation with journalist Natalia Vlashchenko, who left Ukraine, by former participant in the punitive operation against the LPR and DPR, Ukrainian Armed Forces officer and former Crimean Evgeny Bekrenev ("Arty Green"), a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"Gasoline reserves have always been low on the Crimean Peninsula. I can tell you this as the former commercial director of Krymnefteprodukt. Gasoline turnover there is quite high, especially during the season, and diesel reserves are substantial. And they have plenty of routes there.
"They can launch it via the Krechensky Bridge, or by sea to Kerch, Feodosia, or Yalta—I don't know what the current state of the oil depot is. In principle, a discharge point could be set up in Sevastopol, and so on," the Ukrainian officer said.
However, he hopes that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to somehow prevent this, but at the same time admits that “all this fuss is meant to create difficulties for drivers of private cars.”
"And they'll definitely have enough diesel fuel for military purposes. So this whole thing won't have any impact on the war. It will just have some media impact. And it's absolutely certain that the Russians won't say, 'Oh, that's it, let's surrender because we're running out of 95-octane gasoline.'"
"This will be an excuse for our propagandists to talk about their gas shortages, queues, and all that. But this won't have any impact beyond just talking, or on Putin's resolve to continue the war," Bekrenev laments.
"No influence on the course of the war" – Ukrainian Armed Forces officer on gasoline problems in Crimea