In Crimea, locals complain not only about fuel shortages, but also food
Basic products are disappearing from stores on the occupied Crimean peninsula. After strikes on logistical hubs and the land route, an acute fuel crisis began in Crimea, which, by a chain reaction, caused panic expectations among the population, and subsequently a shortage of products on shelves.
The fuel crisis caused disruptions in goods delivery and provoked consumer panic. As the "Agency" publication noted, residents of Simferopol and Sevastopol began to massively complain in local chats about the shortage of basic foodstuffs.
Messages in local chats indicate that problems are observed with sugar, buckwheat, pasta, rice, salt, flour, and oil.
Local public pages report the following facts: in large retail chains, sugar and cheap cereals have completely or partially disappeared — people are literally "sweeping away" goods by the box.
Signs with warnings about strict restrictions have begun to appear in stores: for example, issuing no more than 3 kg of sugar, buckwheat, and rice per person.
In the Simferopol "Auchan" hypermarket, only expensive salt and remnants of buckwheat under the store's own brand remained on the shelves.
So far, product disruptions are not total across the entire peninsula — residents of some cities (Feodosia, Bakhchisaray) report that they personally have not seen empty shelves, but are already reading about it on social networks.
Nevertheless, the problem with food and fuel delivery is growing, as the promises of the occupation authorities to normalize logistics after successful Ukrainian drone strikes remain only on paper for now.
Today it became known that due to the strike on the Chongar Bridge, traffic across it towards Crimea has been blocked.