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They still are, though not as much as before as raw oil production and transportation infrastructure is also getting destroyed. But the gasoline and diesel shortages are mainly due to attacks on refineries and fuel transportation, not just a shortage of oil.
Yes, Russia has price controls on gasoline and diesel. The price controls aren't as formal as in some countries. But they are there.
Separately there has developed a black market of entirely unregulated gasoline and diesel sales, with often far higher prices. This is particularly notable in parts of Russia, and Russia occupied Ukraine, where they've on occasion entirely banned the sale of fuel to ordinary people.
That's about a dollar per litre. Much higher than at least what I knew it to be a decade and a half ago - about 3-4x and also a tad higher than it was 8 weeks ago - about 5%.
globalpetrolprices dot com confirms this too:
Russia Diesel prices: The last eight weeks
Russia Diesel prices, liter, Russian Rouble
It's not just about morale. About 50% of Russian tax revenues is spent on the invasion, much of that going out of the country to pay for weapons parts.
Right now there are Russian farmers who haven't planted their fields because those farmers couldn't get enough diesel at a price they could afford. Those fields would have paid for more missiles to attack Ukraine. Now they don't.