After an hour and a half queuing for sugar, or worse still fighting for it in a market, Russians are feeling the effect of shortages caused by an unprecedented cutoff from the world
Since the source is Guardian (BTW no way I'm giving a click to these fascist swines), we can just ignore that rubbish till some Russian citizens from here say what is actually happening.
Also people are starting to buy more than they would "just in case" in other places too - say here in Serbia (no war or sanctions or any other thing happening, just typical war hysteria in the media) my mom is trying to convince me to stockpile food "because of the situation" - needless to say she and her sister are watching lots of TV daily. War indeed is good for business in so many ways!
People are basically stocking up on everything - buckwheat, sugar, canned food, water, etc. Some stores are trying to ramp up prices by pretending to have a shortage, so there is a grain of truth.
Since the source is Guardian (BTW no way I'm giving a click to these fascist swines), we can just ignore that rubbish till some Russian citizens from here say what is actually happening.
Also people are starting to buy more than they would "just in case" in other places too - say here in Serbia (no war or sanctions or any other thing happening, just typical war hysteria in the media) my mom is trying to convince me to stockpile food "because of the situation" - needless to say she and her sister are watching lots of TV daily. War indeed is good for business in so many ways!
People are basically stocking up on everything - buckwheat, sugar, canned food, water, etc. Some stores are trying to ramp up prices by pretending to have a shortage, so there is a grain of truth.
Oh absolutely, I can imagine since even here it's kinda similar - it's just the context plus many other "grains of truth" that Guardian won't tell us.