Russia is striking Ukraine’s food warehouses. Empty supermarket shelves are becoming more common.

Russian strikes have damaged nearly 90% of Ukrainian grocery retailers' warehouses, according to Agrarian Policy Minister Taras Vysotskyi, leading to empty shelves and retail chains stocking less-popular items to mask shortages of fresh and dairy products. Vysotskyi and industry officials insist this is a logistics problem, not a food shortage, as chains scramble to build faster direct-delivery routes.

A parliamentary finance committee chair described businesses as more desperate than at any point in the war, while Russian officials have said the strikes are retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on refineries and warehouses and pledged to continue them, including threatened 'massive' strikes on energy infrastructure.

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