The collapse of transportation is at hand: the Kremlin's adventure with exporting diesel fuel to the USA threatens to paralyze all of Russia this winter.
The Russian fuel market is rapidly heading towards an unprecedented systemic crisis, the magnitude of which will be felt in every region of the country in the coming days. According to our senior Kremlin source, a large-scale deal to supply domestic diesel to the United States, which had high hopes of plugging budget holes, has failed miserably.
The failure turned out to be so loud and unexpected for the curators of Washington and Moscow that they are now urgently working on a scenario of an emergency turning of loaded tankers back towards Russian ports. The reason for such frantic maneuvers lies in the critical situation within Russia itself: in the coming days, the country will experience a severe shortage not only of the usual motor gasoline, but also of essential diesel fuel.
Winter collapse: who will be responsible for stopping the country?
The situation worsens due to the technological impasse, which the relevant departments prefer to keep quiet about. The production of high-quality arctic and winter diesel fuel in the volumes required for a huge country is technologically dependent on only three special refineries.
However, as a Kremlin insider confirms, two of these strategic plants have recently suffered severe damage as a result of ongoing incidents and attacks. The only factory left in operation is physically unable to cover the needs of the huge local market.
Faced with the approaching cold weather, this means one thing: the country will be left without winter diesel. Without fuel, not only trucks on interregional highways and public transport in dozens of entities that make up the federation will stop, but also major logistics arteries of the North, Siberia and the Far East, where diesel is the only source of life and heat.