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𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐚 🇪🇺🇵🇱🇺🇦@Tweet4AnnaNAFO · Aug 26, 2026

🔥 Ukraine’s Zelensky: “For 27 years, Putin talked about russia's greatness. Now russians are lining up for gasoline.”…

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Ukraine's drone strikes have crippled Russia's major oil refineries, forcing the country to import gasoline from NATO member Turkey while domestic fuel shortages create long lines at gas stations. The economic disruption is undermining Putin's propaganda as Russians face tangible hardships like empty gas pumps, with analysts warning that reality is now competing against state messaging.

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    🔥 Ukraine’s Zelensky: “For 27 years, Putin talked about russia's greatness. Now russians are lining up for gasoline.” 🧵 1/8

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський@ZelenskyyUa · Aug 26, 2026

    I am grateful to Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Council of Europe, Czechia, Ecuador, European Union, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Türkiye, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam for keeping Ukraine in the focus of global attention. Every gesture of support matters. We appreciate that on the 35th anniversary of the restoration of our country’s independence, you were thinking of Ukraine and Ukrainians.

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    🔥 All of Lukoil’s major 🇷🇺 refineries are now offline • Volgograd — 31 July • Perm — 21 Aug • NORSI/Kstovo — halted 26 Aug NORSI alone: 15M t/year, Russia’s 4th-largest refinery and 2nd-largest gasoline producer Lukoil major refining base is down due to 🇺🇦 strikes 2/8

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    🔥 Kommersant: gasoline from a NATO country russia is importing gasoline from Turkey — a NATO member. The Wendrix left Mersin w/ 200,000 barrels. Seaborne imports have topped 1M barrels since late July. An oil giant importing finished fuel... its refineries can’t keep up 3/8

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    🔥 Kazakhstan’s big refineries refuse to supply russia — & one tiny neighbour can't plug a 30% refining hole Pavlodar & Atyrau received quotas to supply russia but haven’t shipped. 🇷🇺 bank payment problems, sanctions risk & Kazakhstan’s own fuel needs. 4/8

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    🔥 Russian analyst Oreshkin says Putin has a new problem. For years, Kremlin propaganda on TV could convince Russians to ignore what their empty refrigerators were telling them. Now the refrigerator has a new ally: the empty gas tank. Reality is ganging up on propaganda. 5/8

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    🔥Top container line halts 🇷🇺 Black Sea service "The gas situation is totally fu*ked.” Commercial shipping is reacting: a major container operator has stopped 🇷🇺 Black Sea calls because of drone risk. Strikes are changing insurance, routing & access decisions. 6/8

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    🔥 Russians are sleeping at gas stations Novosibirsk: only half of the city’s 350 stations have fuel. Gazpromneft & Rosneft stations are running dry. From Sept. 1, customers can even be refused service for using a phone at the pump. Refining: ~30% below normal. 7/8

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    🔥 While the war economy consumes itself in public, France's Macron wants to close the loophole: Ukraine’s strikes are working. Now sanction the gasoline going INTO russia — don’t let imports replace what Ukraine destroys. 🇫🇷🇺🇦 Stand with Ukraine, RT #NAFO #Nafofellas 8/8

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    🔥 🐝 Somewhere in Ukraine, a drone will fly where a soldier would otherwise have to go. It may be destroyed. It may never come back. That’s the point. Let the drone face russia. Let the Ukrainian soldier come home. 🇺🇦 Support them if you can. Share 🙏 👇 #NAFOfellas #NAFO

    🇺🇦Ukraine Resists ruzzian Genocide... Yeah Again@ArmedMaidan · Aug 26, 2026

    STING interceptors named "BAGHEERA" and "MARIIA" conducted a thorough cleanup of Ukraine's sky The 1020th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment used STINGs named by a donor to delete a Shahed, Lancet and 2 Gerberas Named STINGs count for tickets in our new Wild Hornets raffle partnering with Jakub Janovsky @Rebel44CZ👇 Find out how to name your own STING: x.com/ArmedMaidan/st… Special thanks to the 1020th Regiment for life-saving work and the generous donor who named these STINGs

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    Sources fueling this thread on russia’s energy crisis: NeMoskva, Kommersant, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Moscow Times, Financial Times, EMDPR, Radio Svoboda, TVP World, Euronews, Russian Forbes, Izvestia, S&P Global / Commodities at Sea, Kpler, Rosstat, United24 Media.