Mongolia, Russia's long-term trading partner, is ‌feeling the pinch of fuel shortages in its neighbour, the dominant supplier of gasoline and diesel, a Mongolian official told Reuters.
Media and Reuters witnesses reported long queues at petrol ​stations across the nation, which put curbs on sales of the ​fuel last month.
The gasoline and diesel shortages have spilled over from ⁠Russia, where Ukrainian drone attacks on oil refineries and high seasonal demand ​led to a fuel crunch.

"I know about the problem in Russia. However, the ​fuel price is rising for Mongolia," Bolorchuluun Tsendgombo, the director of the policy and planning department in Mongolia's food ministry, told Reuters.
Prices had risen to nearly $1.5 to $2 a litre, ​he added, from the rate during the spring, of roughly a dollar ​per litre, he added.
Russia's export ban on gasoline and diesel exempts countries, such as Mongolia, with ‌which ⁠it has inter-governmental pacts on fuel supplies.
Traders said Russian diesel fuel supplies to Mongolia rose by 7% to 1,05 million metric tons between January and July. Gasoline exports increased to 515,000 tons from 450,000 tons, while supplies of ​jet fuel fell 40% ​to 32,000 tonnes.

In ⁠July alone, Russia's motor fuel exports to Mongolia declined to 173,000 tons from 186,400 tons in June.
Mongolia may reduce ​imports of Russian grain due to a bigger expected ​harvest, after ⁠buying about 100,000 tons of its wheat last year, Tsendgombo added in remarks on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
On Wednesday President Vladimir Putin ⁠met ​Mongolian Prime Minister Nyam-Osoryn Uchral in the Russian ​far eastern city, hailing "traditional, friendly and neighbourly" ties as having now reached the level of a ​comprehensive strategic partnership.

Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Olesya Astakhova; Editing by Clarence Fernandez

Published Date:2026-09-03