Store Shelves In Crimea Are Emptying

• 9.06.2026, 7:52

Stores are limiting sales of sugar, grains, and flour.

Food shortages are becoming increasingly common in occupied Crimea. Sugar, grains, flour, salt, and pasta are disappearing from store shelves.

This is reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation.

What is happening

Local residents report empty shelves in stores. Some retail chains have already imposed limits on the number of items a single customer can purchase—this only fuels panic among the population.

Causes of the crisis

The problem has several components. First, rising demand due to the significant number of migrants and military personnel brought in by Russia. Second, serious logistical difficulties:


The Crimean Bridge can no longer cope with its role as the main transport artery;

maritime routes are under constant threat;
land transport through the occupied territories regularly falls within the range of Ukrainian drones.

The occupying authorities remain silent

Despite the obvious problems, the occupying administration avoids any public explanations and continues to feign stability.

Russia has already acknowledged “temporary difficulties” with fuel supplies in the south of the country and in occupied Crimea due to strikes by Ukrainian drones and has established a separate sectoral headquarters to address the situation.

In occupied Crimea, due to regular strikes on oil depots, strict restrictions have been imposed and gasoline ration cards. On June 7, defense forces struck the peninsula’s two largest oil depots and an FSB facility.