# The War on Winter Began in August: the First russian Winter Without Free Diesel Is Already Underway

An episode of [Terykon](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6824717076), 9 Aug 2026, 25 min.

Audio: https://audio.terykon.com/2026/terykon-6389.mp3

Bottom Line: Writing from Kharkiv as russian strikes in August damaged energy facilities in the Odesa region, the analysis argues that russia faces its first winter without free diesel. Ukrainian strikes on refineries such as Saratov, NORSI and the moscow plant forced fuel imports from Belarus, export restrictions and rationing, while rail strain shifts scarcity onto peripheral regions. Ukraine faces a harder winter of outages, worsened by low European gas storage, but russia’s inability to distribute fuel gains strategic weight. The War on Winter Began in August: the First russian Winter Without Free Diesel Is Already Underway By Giorgio Provinciali and Alla Perdei · 9 August 2026 · terykon.com Narrated by an AI-generated voice. Text by Giorgio Provinciali and Alla Perdei (Terykon).

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