OREANDA-NEWS. August 06, 2014. Representatives of the Russian Federation have completely blocked the entry of vehicles with Ukrainian food products to the Crimea. The formal reason for the delay was non-compliance with Russian health standards.

The Russian side prevents imports of corn, corn grits, soya, soya flour, sunflower seeds, canned food, dairy products, soft drinks into the territory of Crimea.

The traffic through the checkpoints "Stavky", "Kairka" and "Chonhar" from Crimea has been completely blocked. From the mainland there are huge lines of hundreds of large trucks.

We believe that Russia is creating an artificial shortage of food on the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine. Also such actions are aimed at forced obtaining Russian customs permits for Ukrainian carriers as a part of measures in order to legitimize the occupation authorities.

As a reminder, on 17 May this year, Russia has already carried out similar measures so as to block the import of Ukrainian food products into the Crimea. The then formal reason was lack of Rosselkhoznadzor’s permissions.