'Maybe the price of sugar won't go up, but people are afraid,' a 57-year-old Russian woman says. RussiaUkraineCrisis
That message seems to have fallen on deaf ears, however, in Pokrov, a town of 17,000 people located 100 kilometers east of Moscow that is home to the prison colony holding Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critic.
“Maybe the price of sugar won’t go up, but people are afraid,” the 57-year-old said. “That’s probably why everyone is buying some.”, one of the many Western outlets shut in response to the intervention. Russia sent its army into Ukraine on February 24 in what it called a special operation to degrade its neighbor’s military capabilities and root out people it called dangerous nationalists.
Larisa, another resident, said she had witnessed enough upheaval in her lifetime to be undaunted by having to tighten her belt.
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