"With Putin’s election theater just six weeks away and Ukraine’s expanding strike campaign hammering Russia’s economy, signs of anger and unrest are becoming harder for the Kremlin to hide.  
  
Protesters gathered outside Russia’s Supreme Court in Moscow as authorities moved against yet another political party, while Ukraine continued expanding its long-range campaign across Russia. More refineries were targeted, alongside another massive Wildberries logistics facility, this time the 158,000-square-meter Voronezh location. Refinery incidents were also reported in Tyumen, Orsk, Nizhnekamsk and other regions.  
  
Thousands of kilometers farther east, an explosion and fire were reported at a refinery in Komsomolsk-on-Amur near the Pacific, roughly 6,500 km from Ukraine and far beyond the expected reach of Ukrainian drones.  
  
Russia’s gasoline crisis is returning, and this time it could be worse. Fuel lines and shortages are already being reported across more than 15 Russian regions as repeated refinery disruptions squeeze domestic supplies.  
  
Meanwhile, Russia’s agricultural sector continues deteriorating. Grain indicators are approaching levels not seen since the early post-Soviet era, while Russian grain merchants warn of a “catastrophe” as prices and the domestic grain market collapse.  
  
In Tyumen, the water crisis is moving toward a humanitarian emergency. Residents desperate for drinking water have crowded delivery trucks as supplies disappear from stores. Similar problems are now being reported in Yekaterinburg.  
  
And Russia’s dependence on North Korea continues to deepen. Moscow and Pyongyang are expanding military cooperation, while growing numbers of North Korean workers are being brought into Russia.  
  
The war Putin promised would strengthen Russia is increasingly reaching Russians at home through fuel shortages, economic decline, failing infrastructure, political repression and growing dependence on North Korea. Yet as conditions deteriorate, more Russians are directing their anger not at the Kremlin that started the war, but at Ukraine for bringing its consequences home."

Jay in Kyiv: Russians Turn Against Putin As Fake Election Looms