OREANDA-NEWS Following the results of trading on Wednesday, October 22, on the St. Petersburg Stock Exchange, the cost of winter diesel fuel rose to 77,857 rubles per ton, which became a new record. This is evidenced by the data of the site.

Summer and off-season diesel fuel fell by 0.25 percent and 1.03 percent, to 64,777 and 62,931 rubles per ton, respectively. The price of Ai-92 gasoline decreased by 0.22 percent, to 74,232 rubles, a ton of Ai-95 became cheaper by 0.01 percent, dropping to 79,599 rubles.

Winter diesel fuel supplied in the Urals and Siberia, as well as Siberia and the Far East, is noticeably more expensive — 82,354 rubles and 85,366 rubles per ton.

Earlier it was reported that against the background of the growing number of regions where there are problems with the availability of gasoline, the government is preparing new measures to improve the situation. In particular, the authorities are going to change the mechanism of exchange trading and fix the minimum volumes of processing from the production level.