Fact-check: “PETRAEUS: Every refinery in Russia within 3,000 km of Ukraine has been hit. Less than 30% of gas stations in Russia now have gas, and the fuel is so degraded that it is fouling cars. Damage inflicted…”
Verdict: Partly True (68% confidence)
The recent record does support two big factual pieces of this claim: Ukraine’s strike campaign has reached refineries as far as Omsk, about 2,500–2,700 km away, and by mid-August 2026 widely cited Russian app data showed fuel available at only about 28% of tracked gas stations. But the more absolute refinery claim is not fully pinned down on its own terms because the best sourced evidence confirms the last of Russia’s 11 biggest gasoline producers was hit, not literally every refinery within a…
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