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As the NATO summit opened, Ukraine launched over 400 attack drones at Russia. With Ukraine focusing its strikes on oil refineries for months, Russia is now grappling with a nationwide energy crisis.

Reporter Kim Young-a has the story.

[Reporter]

Vehicles line up endlessly along the road, waiting to enter a gas station.

This is the scene in Russia, which is facing a fuel shortage due to Ukraine's attacks on oil refineries.

[I have been waiting for 12 hours.]

[It has been 5 hours for me.]

Exhausted by the wait, citizens are engaging in physical altercations to get fuel first, and portable toilets have even been set up around gas stations.

[Pavel Stepanov / Content Creator: The government provides no information to the people and fails to solve the problem. All they do is set up portable toilets.]

Ukraine has been focusing its drone strikes on Russian oil refineries for several months.

Recently, an oil refinery near the capital, Moscow, was also engulfed in flames.

With more than 20% of refining facilities shut down, Russia, the world's second-largest crude oil exporter, has been reduced to importing gasoline from countries like India.

Fuel purchase restrictions have been imposed in nearly 60 regions, and the Crimean Peninsula has even implemented a rationing system.

In many places, thieves are rampant, stealing fuel from parked cars.

[Diana Shukhevich / Victim of Theft: It has become dangerous to park cars on the street now. Thieves cut the hose and stole 20 liters of gasoline.]

In some regions, local government heads are personally stepping forward to appeal for residents to refrain from driving.

[Berezovsky / Mayor of Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky: I am walking home from work. Please do not drive unless it is absolutely necessary until everything returns to normal.]

President Vladimir Putin unusually admitted at the end of last month that the crude oil shortage was a consequence of the war in Ukraine.

However, as he has not offered a solution to end the war, public frustration continues to mount.

(Video Editing: Kim Jong-tae)