I don't know if it's true or fake.
But I read that indeed the Russian military is suffering some sort of fuel shortage, almost a crisis, caused by top military commanders selling off fuel supplies on their own to fuel
wholesalers and pocketing the money.
In other words, stealing.
It seems impossible, however, it's Russia and corruption is a sport over there. And if you know your history, Putin himself did something very similar when he was a young bureaucrat, just out of the KGB, in the early 90s and working for the then mayor of St. Petersberg Sobchek (spelling). At the time there was a massive food shortage and Putin was tasked with selling oil abroad and using the revenue to buy food for the starving people. He signed up his buddies to handle the program and indeed they sold the oil but they never bought any food, they just kept the money and of course, a huge amount flowed back to Putin himself (or so the story goes).
My point is that as absurd as the story of top ranking Russian military leaders stealing fuel reserves and selling them on the black market sounds, it's not impossible and knowing that it's Russia, makes it very possible.
So who knows.
Supposedly this shit had been going on for a long time and the Generals thought they'd never need all the fuel stores thay had control over.
Whoops.
But I read that indeed the Russian military is suffering some sort of fuel shortage, almost a crisis, caused by top military commanders selling off fuel supplies on their own to fuel
wholesalers and pocketing the money.
In other words, stealing.
It seems impossible, however, it's Russia and corruption is a sport over there. And if you know your history, Putin himself did something very similar when he was a young bureaucrat, just out of the KGB, in the early 90s and working for the then mayor of St. Petersberg Sobchek (spelling). At the time there was a massive food shortage and Putin was tasked with selling oil abroad and using the revenue to buy food for the starving people. He signed up his buddies to handle the program and indeed they sold the oil but they never bought any food, they just kept the money and of course, a huge amount flowed back to Putin himself (or so the story goes).
My point is that as absurd as the story of top ranking Russian military leaders stealing fuel reserves and selling them on the black market sounds, it's not impossible and knowing that it's Russia, makes it very possible.
So who knows.
Supposedly this shit had been going on for a long time and the Generals thought they'd never need all the fuel stores thay had control over.
Whoops.
