suspicious_hyperlinkRussians spend ~40% of income on food, highest level in 16 years
Not good news. Sanctioning people in order for them to starve is what the USA is doing to Cuba, with the explicit aim of “bringing about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”. Yearly, EU+USA economic sanctions murder over half a million people over the world, per the latest analysis in the medical journal The Lancet.
As much as we criticise Putin when he mocks Europeans freezing in winter due to fossil gas prices (I myself experienced a 200% increase in heating costs in the 2022-2023 winter), we shouldn’t celebrate when innocent Russian citizens are forced to hunger by sanctioning and by their own government’s right wing policy.
This is not happening because of sanctioning, since food and essential goods aren’t sanctioned. This is solely on the the corrupt Russian dictatorship and its war.
You are literally making that up. The EU mostly restricted food exports to Russia since 2014 as you can see in this 2016 document from the European Parliament website, and those exports became almost complete after 2022
The russians are not starving; Russia is not dependent on food imports. This only means, that prices went up or salary went down and that russians cant afford as many luxury goods as before