Serhiy Danylov, deputy director of the Ukrainian Association of Middle East Studies, told a Ukrinform correspondent about this.

“Bread supplies have quietly stopped in many villages in the Kherson region—or perhaps even in most of them. In Skadovsk, it’s fortunate that the bakery still runs on natural gas, because as far back as 2021, there were plans to convert it to electricity. But they didn’t have time to do it, and it was never converted. As a result, bread is being baked in Skadovsk, but very little of it is being delivered,” says Danylov.

According to him, first of all, they are not always able to secure the necessary quantities of flour. Second, bread is not being delivered to the villages.

“Most often, people don’t have the money to drive out for bread. Plus, it’s dangerous to drive,” says Danylov. He gave an example of how residents of one village try to send a courier by car once a week to get bread for the entire village.

Danylov also added that grain truck drivers are afraid to drive, so transporting the produce is problematic. There are similar problems in the temporarily occupied Crimea—people there now say it’s easier to burn the fields to prevent mice from breeding than to harvest the crops, given the security risks and the cost of fuel.

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“And near Dzhankoi, orchard owners are offering to let people harvest their crops for free in exchange for picking up whatever has fallen to the ground—so it doesn’t rot,” says Danylov. He also noted that in the villages of the Kherson region, farmers are restoring kabytsias—outdoor stoves—on a massive scale and are living off their own produce, whatever they’ve been able to grow.

As reported by Ukrinform, in the fall of 2022, the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated the right-bank part of the Kherson region, including the city of Kherson. The part of the region located on the left bank of the Dnipro River remains temporarily occupied by Russian troops.