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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont Senior international correspondent

Ukraine’s drone attacks have left Russia desperately scrambling for oil imports

Many cars queue at a petrol station at night
Drivers line up at a petrol station while many others are out of fuel as Russia struggles with limited refining capacity. Photograph: Getty Images

A sanctioned shadow fleet tanker carries oil from Nato member Turkey to a Russian Baltic port. A deal is signed for Russian oil to be processed in Kazakhstan. Fuel cargoes arrive from India via Egypt. The Kremlin pressures allies to sell it badly needed fuel.

The data points may be diverse, but they point to a single inescapable conclusion.

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