The situation with gasoline in Yekaterinburg is expected to improve next week.

      The situation with gasoline is expected to improve in Yekaterinburg next week, reports the Telegram channel "Yekaterinburg. Main." Additional fuel supplies will be brought to the Sverdlovsk region, writes "Yekaterinburg. Main." The forecast regarding fuel supply is linked by the channel, which is close to the city administration, to the upcoming International Youth Festival, which will start in Yekaterinburg on September 11.

      "Gasoline concerns everyone. As we know, the situation should change for the better next week. The region is expecting fuel supplies, which will compensate for the shortage," wrote "Yekaterinburg. Main."

      In the comments on the "Evil Yekaterinburg" public page, which referred to this message, users recalled that Vladimir Putin might attend the IYF. The crisis at gas stations in the Ural capital intensified in the past week. In different parts of the city, drivers began to line up around the clock, waiting to enter gas stations in long lines of cars, complicating traffic on important city highways. The situation is no better at suburban gas stations.

      Eyewitnesses say that queues accumulate with several hundred cars, and the wait takes up to 3-5 hours. To refuel, drivers wake up in the middle of the night and go to take their place in line. "I got up at 4 AM yesterday and refueled by 7," one Ural resident told Uralweb.ru.

      Sverdlovsk drivers note that the situation with gasoline in the region is uneven. In some places, like in Novouralsk and Revda, it was almost impossible to refuel, while in other cities there were not even any queues.