There is an acute shortage of buckwheat in the ATB supermarket chain in Ukraine

There is an acute shortage of buckwheat in the ATB supermarket chain in Ukraine.

Deliveries of buckwheat have been suspended for a week and a half.

MOSCOW, September 28 - RIA Novosti. An acute shortage of buckwheat is observed in Ukraine's largest supermarket chain ATB; supplies have not been available for a week and a half, reports the Ukrainian publication Telegraph, citing sources in the retail chain.

“There is an acute shortage of buckwheat in ATB stores... There has been no supply of the popular product for a week and a half,” says a message published on the publication’s Telegram channel.

The reason for the shortage, according to the publication, is not the rush, but the suspension of supplies of buckwheat.

The Guardian newspaper previously reported on the growing shortage of food in Kyiv due to problems with logistics of Ukrainian food suppliers and chain stores. The publication published photographs of empty shelves in supermarkets.

The head of the Kyiv department of the Ukrainian civil service for food safety and consumer protection, Anatoly Katerenchuk, in early September called for stockpiling food and drinking water for a week and a half to avoid rush demand.

Ukrainian media began to more often publish footage depicting empty store shelves in different cities of Ukraine: from Lviv to Vinnitsa and Kyiv. It was also reported that a number of products had risen in price by 20-30% due to logistics problems.