{"id":554438,"date":"2026-06-26T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=554438"},"modified":"2026-06-26T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:44:08","slug":"russian-deputy-prime-minister-says-fuel-supplies-are-sufficient-demand-artificially-inflated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/russian-deputy-prime-minister-says-fuel-supplies-are-sufficient-demand-artificially-inflated","title":{"rendered":"Russian Deputy Prime Minister Says Fuel Supplies Are Sufficient, Demand Artificially Inflated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Russian Deputy Prime Minister <b>Alexander Novak<\/b> said Russia has sufficient fuel supplies.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;We have enough fuel on the market,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> he said, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/27859305\">according to<\/a> TASS.<\/p>\n<p>Novak&#8217;s comments came amid reports of regular attacks on Russian oil refineries and reports of various restrictions on fuel sales in Russian regions and Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;The logistics system is currently being restructured to meet demand. It will take some time to rebalance the market,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Novak also complained about panic buying, which he said had artificially increased fuel demand by 20-30%.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;There has been considerable panic buying, which has artificially increased demand by around 20-30%,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Novak did not rule out further restrictions on fuel exports from Russia. The measure under discussion is a ban on diesel exports by producers. The proposal is due to be discussed at a government meeting later on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Russia has sufficient fuel supplies. &#8220;We have enough fuel on the market,&#8221; he said, according to TASS. Novak&#8217;s comments came amid reports of regular attacks on Russian oil refineries and reports of various restrictions on fuel sales in Russian regions and Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine. &#8220;The logistics system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":554437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a3e3bdd8422a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Russian Deputy Prime Minister Says Fuel Supplies Are Sufficient, Demand Artificially Inflated"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143126],"tags":[143122],"class_list":["post-554438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-business","tag-rossija"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}