Cover image: Fuel lines are running longer across Crimea, following massive Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries. REUTERS - Alexey Pavlishak

Moscow starts feeling bite of fuel shortages as Ukraine ramps up attacks

· France 24

After a rare admission by President Putin that the army was suffering from a fuel shortage, Gallup pollsters have released new findings that Russia's "economic pessimism" has hit a 20-year high. For months, Ukrainian drones have been attacking Russian oil infrastructure and the consequences are now being felt even in the capital - usually the last to feel them.