{"id":1344047,"date":"2026-01-13T22:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/shelves-are-empty-ukrainians-are-buying-food-in-supermarkets-en-masse\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:54:58","slug":"shelves-are-empty-ukrainians-are-buying-food-in-supermarkets-en-masse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/shelves-are-empty-ukrainians-are-buying-food-in-supermarkets-en-masse\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelves are empty: Ukrainians are buying food in supermarkets en masse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukrainians began to buy food and water in stores en masse due to prolonged power outages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, social media users posted videos showing empty shelves in popular supermarket chains in Kyiv and Irpen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most popular items are bread and water. As one post notes, demand for food is increasing due to residents&#8217; concerns that stores may close.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?22\" data-telegram-post=\"kievinfo_kyiv\/82372\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?22\" data-telegram-post=\"voynareal\/129291\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier,<\/span> information <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-kyievi-ta-oblasti-zakryly-chastynu-supermarketiv-cherez-blekaut\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">appeared<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that due to the blackout,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">some supermarkets may close. Novus stated that not all stores can operate as usual, some Silpo stores have already stopped working. ATB denied rumors about the closure of supermarkets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, Prime Minister Yulia Svirydenko<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/znyzhennia-navantazhennia-ta-zabezpechennia-zhyttiediialnosti-u-kyievi-rozghornuly-heneratory-dlia-bahatopoverkhivok\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assured<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that the food situation is under control. The government is coordinating efforts with retail chains, and the Ministry of Economy will respond to the chains&#8217; requests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As it became known,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-kyievi-pohirshylas-sytuatsiia-zi-svitlom-yasno\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the energy supply situation on the right bank of Kyiv has deteriorated<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the level of the left bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the way, in Kyiv,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/znyzhennia-navantazhennia-ta-zabezpechennia-zhyttiediialnosti-u-kyievi-rozghornuly-heneratory-dlia-bahatopoverkhivok\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on behalf of the government, high-power generators were deployed<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to power residents of residential buildings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainians began to buy food and water in stores en masse due to prolonged power outages. In particular, social media users posted videos showing empty shelves in popular supermarket chains in Kyiv and Irpen. The most popular items are bread and water. As one post notes, demand for food is increasing due to residents&#8217; concerns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1344077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76878,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1344047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1344077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}