Putin mutiny fears soar as Russians fume over crippling petrol crisis – 'Fiasco!'

Vladimir Putin is facing unprecedented criticism today as Russia lurches into chaos over worsening petrol queues. Ukraine’s strikes on oil refineries are tightening a noose for the dictator with dire warnings of economic collapse and social unrest.

Russians are lining up for many hours and even days at a time in some regions to fill their cars due to chronic fuel shortages. Fights are breaking out in the Soviet-style queues and bribes are being paid to secure black market fuel as the war powerfully impacts Putin’s own people. With Putin’s poll ratings slumping, one ruling party lawmaker Andrey Gurulev, a reservist army general, declared: “It’s a fiasco.” Putin’s strict “management system” was in “collapse,” he warned. Another MP Vyacheslav Markhayev — a former police general who says Russian is “on the brink of a social explosion” – raged: “Why can’t Russia, which produces hundreds of millions of tons of oil, provide its own people with fuel?

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