WATCH: Fights break out at Russian gas stations as Putin admits fuel shortages

Russian President Vladimir Putin has publically acknowledged that Ukrainian long-range strikes are creating substance proviso problems wrong Russia, arsenic videos obtained by Fox News Digital show agelong lines, angry motorists and fights erupting astatine filling stations crossed respective Russian regions.

Speaking astatine a gathering pinch authorities ministers and different officials aft a activity of Ukrainian attacks connected Russian lipid infrastructure, Putin said connected Sunday that strikes connected "critical infrastructure" and power accommodation were creating "problems," including shortages affecting motorists, businesses and cultivation producers, but said Russia was dealing with them, according to Reuters. 

The remarks marked a uncommon admittance from nan Kremlin that Ukraine’s long-range run is having an effect beyond nan battlefield.

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For Ukraine, nan substance situation is grounds that its long-range onslaught campaign is doing much than damaging individual facilities. The attacks are forcing Moscow to negociate visible problems astatine home, exposing a vulnerability successful a state whose world powerfulness has agelong rested connected its power sector. 

Smoke and flames emergence complete Moscow connected June 18, 2026, pursuing a Ukrainian drone onslaught that deed nan Kapotnya lipid refinery and different targets successful nan Russian capital. (East2West)

The shortages person dispersed crossed Russia, including occupied Crimea, confederate Russia, Siberia and Moscow. Moscow besides is weighing emergency measures, including temporarily allowing nan accumulation and import of lower-quality fuel, according to a draught authorities archive reported by nan Kommersant regular newspaper.

Maxim Katz, a Russian guidance fig and erstwhile Moscow municipal deputy, told Fox News Digital that nan substance shortages are existent and progressively difficult for Russians to ignore.

"There are substance problems successful Russia correct now — existent ones," Katz told Fox News Digital. "I’m getting a batch of reports, and I tin spot it too: It’s hard. You can’t find fuel, aliases you person to guidelines successful line. In immoderate cities, you person to walk half a time looking for fuel, and past they springiness you only a little, and you person to get backmost successful statement again."

Fights are erupting successful filling position queues crossed Russia aft Ukrainian drone strikes triggered chronic substance shortages. (East2West)

Katz said nan shortages look tied straight to Ukraine’s attacks connected Russian refining capacity.

"They are bombing nan refineries very effectively," he said. "Putin doesn’t person a measurement to take sides them. Right now, it looks for illustration location is nary measurement to take sides them, and that is simply a awesome unit constituent connected Putin."

Videos obtained by Fox News Digital from east2west Russian news outlet show scenes of vexation astatine Russian filling stations, wherever drivers are seen waiting successful agelong queues and arguing arsenic shortages bite. In 1 video, 2 women look to reason complete a spot successful line, pinch 1 insisting, "I was successful nan queue," earlier nan confrontation escalates into shouting and threats.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a gathering connected securing substance supplies for nan home marketplace successful Moscow, Russia, June 28, 2026. (Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Pool via Reuters)

In Serov, Russia, constabulary were called aft a antheral driver was seen shouting obscenities astatine respective women earlier punching 1 of them, according to a video. 

In Ryazan, Russia, video shows a conflict breaking retired adjacent a forecourt arsenic drivers waited for fuel. In Irkutsk, Russia, a man is seen leaning into nan unfastened model of a hatchback and many times hitting different motorist.

One woman, identified only arsenic Tanya, 29, told east2west she waited 13 hours successful Siberia to get half a vessel of substance and blamed Putin’s warfare for nan chaos.

"He should extremity this senseless conflict and fto america unrecorded normally," she said.

Ukraine progressively has utilized long-range drones to target Russian lipid refineries, depots and proviso routes hundreds of miles from its border. Ukraine deed two Russian lipid refineries overnight, Reuters reported Sunday, including 1 successful Krasnodar, Russia, and different successful Yaroslavl, Russia, arsenic Kyiv continues targeting infrastructure linked to Moscow’s warfare effort.

'PURE HELL' IN MOSCOW AS UKRAINIAN DRONES STRIKE MAJOR REFINERY SUPPLYING CAPITAL'S FUEL MARKET

The Moscow Oil Refinery successful Kapotnya burns aft being deed during Ukraine’s June 18, 2026, drone onslaught connected nan Russian capital. (East2West)

Katz said nan substance disruption comes alongside deeper economical unit caused by nan war, including precocious home borrowing, steep liking rates and a fund progressively built astir subject spending.

"The full system is now built connected war," Katz said. "War does not nutrient anything. Nothing comes backmost from it. So what remains is simply a large hole."

He said Russia is not yet connected nan verge of collapse, but nan strain is "growing and growing," pinch economical officials informing that spending whitethorn request to beryllium trim arsenic nan fund shortage becomes harder to close.

This appraisal was besides confirmed to Fox News Digital by a European intelligence source, who said nan economical unit is efficaciously working.

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Cars queue for substance astatine a state position aft nan authorities restricted substance income amid a proviso shortage pursuing Ukrainian attacks connected logistics routes successful nan people of Russia-Ukraine conflict, successful Sevastopol, Crimea June 1, 2026. (Reuters)

Fox News Digital reached retired to Russian and Ukrainian spokespeople for comment. 

Reuters contributed to this story.