We have repeatedly written about the systemic “logistics crisis” in the occupied Crimea, connected, among other things, with the “regional market for petroleum products”.
Against this background, gasoline prices at occupiers-controlled Crimean gas stations were steadily growing, and a week ago criminal Sergey Aksyonov made a “reassuring statement” that supposedly now illegal purchases of fuel to the peninsula would not take place “through the stock exchange”, but “directly”, promising “to reduce prices for petrol”.
At the same time, as the aggressor-controlled “expert” Igor Yushkov admitted, “Crimean companies now purchase fuel exclusively at the St. Petersburg international mercantile exchange, and exchange fluctuations will inevitably affect the cost of fuel in the region”.
It should be noted that this exchange is the main aggressor’s platform for trading in petroleum products, its total turnover in 2022 fell by 1.8% to 1.47 trillion rubles, but the sale of gasoline on the exchange in the same year increased slightly, also by 1-2%.
Obviously, the Aksyonov-announced “manual mode” will, first of all, make it easier for the criminal “government” to play kickbacks with illegal “suppliers”.
Earlier, we have already described the machinations of the occupiers with the financing of illegal transportation through the illegal “Kerch Ferry”, where the main criminal traffic of fuel takes place.
At the same time, the “experts” themselves admit that if a slight “reduction in fuel prices in Crimea” occurs, then “not earlier than the end of this year or the beginning of next year” and all the promised “fuel purchases under long-term contracts” are leveled at least by the “insufficiency” of occupied peninsula of fuel storage facilities.
Considering that a significant part of the illegal supplies of oil products goes to the occupied Crimea for the needs of the aggressor’s army and navy structures, all the mentioned corruption schemes will obviously not be able to affect the prices of gas stations.
