OREANDA-NEWS  During trading on the St. Petersburg Stock Exchange on Thursday, June 11, the price of Ai-95 gasoline increased by 2.28 percent, stopping at around 81,635 thousand rubles per ton, which is close to the historically high 82,382 rubles at the beginning of September last year. This is evidenced by the data of the site.

A year earlier, the exchange value of Ai-95 was 18 thousand rubles per ton lower. Gasoline Ai-92 rose in price by 1.41 percent during the day, to 70,719 rubles per ton. Both results are the highest since the beginning of the year and 18 and 12 thousand rubles, respectively, more than a year earlier in the same period.

Diesel fuel rose in price by 0.79 percent to 72,587 rubles, which is lower than at the beginning of the week. Nevertheless, it costs 11 thousand more than in the middle of June last year. The main reasons for this trend remain the beginning of the summer vacation season and scheduled and unscheduled repairs to refineries.

The latter are related to the renewed drone strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the spring. In particular, on the night of June 11, drones attacked the Afipsky refinery in the Krasnodar Territory. By morning, the fire was extinguished. Before that, the Ilsky Oil Refinery was hit.

Earlier, Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev urged residents of the city not to queue for gasoline on June 11, because they had not arrived in the city and there would be no fuel sales anyway.