Bare Grocery Shelves Are a New Wartime Hardship for Ukrainians

After years of pounding power plants and cities, Russia’s air war has taken aim at Ukraine’s supermarket warehouses. By Kim Barker and Oleksandra Mykolyshyn There was no disguising the gaps in the usually well-stocked shelves of the Silpo supermarket in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, this week. They had no barley, buckwheat, quinoa or rice. No spring onions or packaged lettuce, and just one lonely, wilted bunch of cilantro. For the first time since the initial months after the 2022 invasion, the city’s residents are experiencing shortages of a wide range of grocery staples because of Russian ballistic missile strikes on critical distribution centers. “It’s a nightmare, a nightmare,” said a Silpo shopper, Nina Kirichuk, 67, a retired hairdresser, her cart carrying bread and two kinds of herring. “I’m horrified.

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