Paul Goble
Staunton, July 13 – The gas shortages Russians are facing because of Ukraine’s drone attacks on refineries are not only sparking anger directly but fears because they are also boosting inflation and reducing the ability of farmers to bring in harvests, something that may lead to declines in exports and even domestic shortages of food.
But now they are facing yet another crisis, one that will affect Russians both directly and indirectly. The fuel shortages are limiting the ability of firms to repair Russia’s roads this summer, The Moscow Times reports (ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/07/13/letnii-remont-dorog-v-rossii-okazalsya-pod-ugrozoi-sriva-iz-za-defitsita-dizelya-a200654).
According to the paper, there is a great danger that this additional problem will metasticize into additional ones if road repair companies can’t get loans to buy more expensive bitumen and diesel fuel, noting that the National Association of Infrastructure Companies has called for the government to compensate these firms or face a difficult future.
Hard-pressed by the ballooning costs of Putin’s war in Ukraine, the Russian government is unlikely to do so; and as a result, roads that no one is repairing will join all the other problems that the successful Ukrainian attacks on Russian infrastructure have achieved so far, sparking more anger among Russians and more difficulties for their rulers.
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