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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Maytaal Angel

Russians' spending on food doubles following Ukraine war - U.N. food agency

FILE PHOTO: Customers line up next to a counter at a market in Omsk, Russia February 18, 2022. REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko/File Photo

Russian citizens are spending on average 40% of their disposable income on food - about twice as much as they did before the Russia-Ukraine war, the director of the U.N. food agency's Russia liaison office told Reuters.

Russian government data shows annual food inflation hit 18.75% on April 1 as the economy reels from Western sanctions imposed on Moscow following its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.

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