Overview
- Russia’s prime minister told Mongolia the country is exempt from Moscow’s fuel export limits and that oil-product deliveries to Mongolia will increase.
- Industry officials said this week’s petrol shortfall in Ulaanbaatar was a brief delivery-timing issue from depots that close on weekends, with overall A92 supply and prices reported stable.
- Construction in the Selbe sub-center is advancing with foundations started for 82 of 113 blocks toward 8,565 homes, and the first residents are slated to move in by July 2027.
- Planning for new orbital roads is progressing, with an international tender out for the First Ring Road—projected to cut central congestion by 20–25% and create thousands of jobs—while a feasibility study maps the Second Ring Road’s western and eastern corridors.
- Water authorities reported intestinal bacteria in river samples across multiple sites and highlighted roughly 680,000 pit latrines in the capital, as regulators and experts press factories to install wastewater pre-treatment despite space and technical hurdles.