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Sergey Kuyun, head of consulting firm A-95, reports that strikes on Ukrainian ports have led to fuel shortages and increased freight and insurance costs. The report notes that industrial consumers are buying fuel in bulk and that several major ports have not handled foreign cargo since July 22.

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What happened

Strikes on Ukrainian ports are causing significant damage to maritime imports, triggering a fuel shortage in Ukraine, said Sergey Kuyun, head of the consulting firm A-95.

Why it matters

"Freight and insurance costs have skyrocketed," he was quoted as saying by the Zerkalo Nedeli news outlet.

Common ground

"It is also worth noting that Romania has halted the export of petroleum products from its refineries, though it has so far permitted transit through the very ports that handle the bulk of fuel shipments from that direction.

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Sergey Kuyun, head of consulting firm A-95, reports that strikes on Ukrainian ports have led to fuel shortages and increased freight and insurance costs. The report notes that industrial consumers are buying fuel in bulk and that several major ports have not handled foreign cargo since July 22.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Freight and insurance costs have skyrocketed”
SINGLE SOURCE
The provided evidence mentions that war risk insurance exists and is more expensive than in peacetime, but it does not provide specific evidence that costs have 'skyrocketed' recently or in the context of the current fuel crisis.
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web search NEUTRAL — Since Ukraine is a significant grain exporter in the world economy, major ship insurers have been offering war risk insurance for ships and cargo since autumn 2023 at significantly lower than market p…
https://ullatapaninen.net/2025/06/12/the-ukrainian-war-as-a-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Discover the latest maritime news, shipping updates, and offshore industry insights at gCaptain.
https://gcaptain.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — CIF – Cost, Insurance And Freight (Costs, insurance and freight to the port of destination) The seller assumes all costs and risks until the goods have been loaded onto the ship. The seller bears the …
https://www.mundus-agri.eu/news/ukraine-increased-export-hon…
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Claim 2: “By late July and early August, running out of diesel fuel by the afternoon had become a common occurrence”
MISLEADING
The evidence provided describes frequent fuel shortages in late July and August, but these shortages are explicitly attributed to Russia (due to Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries), not Ukraine. The claim attributes these shortages to Ukraine.
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web search NEUTRAL — Ukrainian drone strikes have hit 24 of Russia's 34 refineries in 2026, cutting gasoline production 25% and forcing the petrostate to import fuel.
https://cryptobriefing.com/russia-fuel-shortages-ukrainian-s…
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web search NEUTRAL — In August, the gasoline shortage in Russia intensified again. At least ten Russian regions introduced tighter controls on motor fuel sales amid disruptions in supply.
https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/0c2b4840_fuel_shortages_deepen/
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web search NEUTRAL — Since early August, a second wave of fuel shortages has spread across nearly all of Russia's territory, Reuters reported on Aug. 17, citing announcements from Russian authorities and local media.
https://english.nv.ua/nation/second-wave-of-fuel-shortages-s…
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Claim 3: “Since July 22, the Ukrainian ports of Odessa, Chernomorsk, and Yuzhny (the so-called Greater Odessa region) have neither received nor dispatched a single foreign cargo vessel”
DISPUTED
There is a direct contradiction in the evidence. One source (Yuri Baranchik) claims no foreign commercial vessels have entered since July 22. However, another source (TRT World) reports a deal signed on July 22 specifically to reopen these three ports for grain shipments, implying activity.
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web search NEUTRAL — Since July 10, Russian forces have repeatedly targeted ports in Greater Odessa, an area that includes the ports of Odessa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny, in southern Ukraine.
http://ecoruspace.ru/index.php?action=view&id_news=124002580
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web search NEUTRAL — Since July 22, no foreign commercial vessel has entered the ports of Odessa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian drones are attacking every ship that tries to…
https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/08/06/2496370.html
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web search NEUTRAL — Türkiye, the UN, Russia and Ukraine signed a deal on July 22 to reopen three Ukrainian ports — Odessa, Chernomorsk, and Yuzhny — for grain that has been stuck for months because of the ongoing Russia-…
https://www.trtworld.com/article/12786501?_rt=1
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Claim 4: “Romania has halted the export of petroleum products from its refineries”
SINGLE SOURCE
The evidence provided for this claim discusses general petroleum definitions, Romania's refinery capacity, and Russia's imports, but contains no mention of Romania halting exports of petroleum products from its refineries.
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web search NEUTRAL — Petroleum, also known as crude oil or simply oil, is a natural resource that appears as a yellowish-black liquid chemical mixture found in geological formations, consisting primarily of hydrocarbons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum
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web search NEUTRAL — By 2013, Romanian production had fallen to about 25% of what it was producing in the 1980s. Yet, Romania has the fifth largest natural gas reserves in Europe and, with its refinery capacity, Romania i…
https://www.themarketforideas.com/romania-a-new-energy-power…
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web search NEUTRAL — Russia, one of the world's major crude exporters, has turned to gasoline imports after Ukrainian drone attacks disrupted its refineries.This means Russian crude imported by Indian refiners may have be…
https://www.livemint.com/news/world/from-crude-exporter-to-f…
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Claim 5: “Romania... has so far permitted transit through the very ports that handle the bulk of fuel shipments from that direction”
CORROBORATED
Two independent sources (the report on 'The shadow fleet at Alkagesta' and 'Alkagesta’s fuel fraud') explicitly state that Ukraine's diesel purchases found a critical gateway through the Romanian port of Constanta.
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web search NEUTRAL — Forced to rely on imports, Ukraine sharply increased diesel purchases, often declared as having Indian origin. These supplies found a critical gateway in Europe through the Romanian port of Constanta.
https://repoct.org/news/137739-the_shadow_fleet_at_alkagesta…
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web search NEUTRAL — Forced to rely on imports, Ukraine sharply increased diesel purchases, often declared as having Indian origin. These supplies found a critical gateway in Europe through the Romanian port of Constanta.
https://m.rumafia.io/news/97592-alkagestas_fuel_fraud_launde…
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web search NEUTRAL — Romania's parliament has approved a two-year program to train Ukrainian marines, the latest in a series of moves by Bucharest to help Kyiv defend itself from Moscow's full-scale invasion. Romania has …
https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-ukraine-nato-black-sea-grain…
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Claim 6: “Strikes on Ukrainian ports are causing significant damage to maritime imports, triggering a fuel shortage in Ukraine”
SINGLE SOURCE
The claim is explicitly stated by Sergey Kuyun (head of A-95) via TASS. While Wikipedia confirms Russian strikes on energy infrastructure, there is no second independent source corroborating that these specific port strikes triggered a fuel shortage in Ukraine; other results discuss fuel shortages in Russia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russia has launched waves of missile and drone strikes against energy in Ukraine as part of its invasion. From 2022 the strikes targeted civilian areas beyond the battlefield, particularly critical po…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_strikes_against_Ukrain…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countries that began when Ru…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022–pres…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 18 July 2026, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukraine has conducted waves of drone strikes into Russia targeting warehouses belonging to Wildberries, a large online retailer in Russia which has …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_strikes_on_Wildberri…
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Claim 7: “Industrial consumers have been aggressively buying up fuel in bulk, causing wholesale prices to surge above retail levels”
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The search results provided for this claim are dictionary definitions of the word 'bulk' and nutrition supplement advertisements; they provide no factual information regarding industrial fuel purchases in Ukraine.
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web search NEUTRAL — Bulk fermentation, the period after mixing when dough is left alone to ferment in bulk, meaning before division to final weights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago · bulk, mass, volume mean the aggregate that forms a body or unit. bulk implies an aggregate that is impressively large, heavy, or numerous.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bulk
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web search NEUTRAL — Bulk™ is the leading supplier of bodybuilding supplements & sports nutrition – covering Protein, Creatine, Vitamins, Fat Loss & more! Formerly Bulk Powders.
https://www.bulk.com/uk/
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