Russian strikes on food warehouses and logistics hubs around Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities are leaving supermarket shelves half-empty and threatening to push up food prices, adding fresh strain to civilians already exhausted by more than four years of war. A truce meant to protect visiting US negotiators collapsed on Monday night when drones and ballistic missiles hit Kyiv, killing two people, part of a wider intensification of attacks since late August that has also destroyed medical supplies and e-commerce facilities.

Ukraine's agrarian policy and food minister, Taras Vysotsky, estimated food prices could rise by 2.5% due to the strikes, while Dmytro Krymskiy, co-founder of the Bureau of Wine group, which runs the Goodwine supermarket chain, warned the true impact could reach 15%; one of his warehouses lost €4m (£3.4m) of stock in a 1 September strike, the third such hit since 2022. Krymskiy said price rises stem less from shortages than from the cost of making supply chains more resilient, such as splitting stock across smaller sites or storing goods abroad or underground. A WHO aid warehouse and a pharmaceutical firm, Biokon, which lost three months' worth of medicines, were also hit, though shoppers and shopkeepers say panic-buying is far less common than during the 2022 invasion.