Ukraine's escalating drone and missile campaign against Russia's oil and gas industry is increasingly being felt inside Russia itself, according to a Fox News report drawing on Russian opposition figure Maxim Katz. The strikes have reportedly forced Moscow to restrict diesel exports, seek fuel imports and grapple with shortages spanning occupied Crimea and cities deep within Russian territory, raising the question of whether the strategy is meaningfully exposing President Putin's vulnerabilities.

Katz told Fox News Digital that the resulting fuel shortages are revealing weaknesses in Russia's position, even though Moscow remains able to keep supplying its own military. The report frames the campaign as an "industrial scale" offensive hitting Russian oil tankers and refineries, coinciding with a Russian ban on diesel exports, alongside related Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian-linked shipping in the Sea of Azov. The full extent of the domestic consequences is presented as growing, though the article text is truncated before providing further specifics.