How severe is Russia’s gasoline crisis? Meduza sized it up using exchange trading data.

Russia is in the grip of a gasoline crisis that developed in just a month, and there is no telling when it will end.

Ukraine has continued to batter Russian infrastructure with drones, above all the country’s oil refineries.

Officials are withholding information about how badly Russia’s refineries have been hit.

Under such conditions, the fuel shortage can be gauged only indirectly — through commodity exchange trading, for example.

Meduza analyzed the available public data to determine the scale of the crisis. ...