{"id":1585,"date":"2026-06-07T03:12:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jakony.com\/frontpage\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2026-06-07T03:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:15:50","slug":"crimea-under-pressure-petrol-coupons-followed-by-food-limits-on-sugar-and-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakony.com\/frontpage\/video\/crimea-under-pressure-petrol-coupons-followed-by-food-limits-on-sugar-and-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimea Under Pressure: Petrol Coupons Followed by Food Limits on Sugar and Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">(SIMFEROPOL, CRIMEA) &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\"> Food products have begun to disappear from shops across occupied Crimea, with shortages following closely behind a fuel crisis that has gripped the peninsula. Local residents report empty shelves and growing restrictions on the sale of essential goods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">Residents of Simferopol and Sevastopol have complained of shortages of staple food products. Amid mounting public panic, people have begun buying up goods &#8220;in reserve,&#8221; forcing retailers to introduce strict purchase limits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">&#8220;Essential goods were the first to be hit: sugar, rice, buckwheat, salt, flour, oil, and pasta. Due to logistics problems and panic buying, some stores have already begun to introduce restrictions on the sale of goods per person,&#8221; one <a href=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/en\/news\/food-crisis-most-popular-food-products-begin-to-disappear-from-shops-in-crimea\">local report<\/a> stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">In Sevastopol, shops are now selling no more than three packages of pasta, three bottles of oil, or three kilogrammes of cereals and sugar per customer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">The food shortages follow earlier logistical disruptions across the occupied peninsula. The sale of oil and pasta had already been restricted in Sevastopol due to strikes on supply routes. Petrol is now dispensed exclusively by coupon, with a strict limit of up to 20 litres per person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">The free sale of petrol has been completely halted in occupied Crimea, according to the Russian installed official Sergey Aksyonov.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1585-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/video\/2026\/06\/06\/1780784496-4211.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/video\/2026\/06\/06\/1780784496-4211.mp4\">https:\/\/unn.ua\/video\/2026\/06\/06\/1780784496-4211.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SIMFEROPOL, CRIMEA) &#8211; Food products have begun to disappear from shops across occupied Crimea, with shortages following closely behind a fuel crisis that has gripped the peninsula. Local residents report empty shelves and growing restrictions on the sale of essential goods. Residents of Simferopol and Sevastopol have complained of shortages of staple food products. Amid mounting public panic, people have begun buying up goods &#8220;in reserve,&#8221; forcing retailers to introduce strict purchase limits. &#8220;Essential goods were the first to be hit: sugar, rice, buckwheat, salt, flour, oil, and pasta. Due to logistics problems and panic buying, some stores have already&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","iawp_total_views":24,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,2,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-europe","category-top-stories","category-video","entry","rows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1578,"url":"https:\/\/jakony.com\/frontpage\/video\/fuel-vouchers-replace-cash-sales-in-occupied-crimea-strict-limits-on-food-sales-imposed\/","url_meta":{"origin":1585,"position":0},"title":"Fuel Vouchers Replace Cash Sales in Occupied Crimea, Strict Limits on Food Sales Imposed","author":"Beatrix Montgomery","date":"June 6, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"(SEVASTOPOL, CRIMEA) - Strict restrictions on the sale of food and fuel have been introduced in occupied Sevastopol, as supply problems across Crimea, triggered by Ukrainian strikes on logistics and oil infrastructure, begin to affect retail trade. 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