Number of food industry enterprises in Donetsk region decreased threefold due to war

This was stated at a briefing by Olena Rybakova, deputy director of the Department of Agricultural Complex and Land Resources of the Donetsk Regional State Administration, a Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"As for the situation in the food market of the region, we have 79 enterprises of the food and processing industry left in the controlled territory. But as of today (after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine – ed.), only 27 of them are operating, of which 14 enterprises are in the bakery industry," Rybakova said. 

She noted that large bakery enterprises, which were in the Donetsk region in Bakhmut, Siversk and Toretsk, are currently not working either due to the occupation or due to enemy shelling. 

The largest bakeries are in the cities of Sloviansk and Druzhkivka, as well as small trade enterprises. According to Rybakova, bread is also imported to the Donetsk region from the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia regions. 

Speaking about bread prices in the region, she said that they have changed slightly since the beginning of the year.

"Compared to the beginning of the year, the price of rye-wheat bread in the region increased by 3%, wheat bread by 7%, sliced loaf by 20%, and the price of Borodynskyi and Dorozhnii bread decreased by 10% and 5%, respectively," the official stated. 

As reported, the Donetsk region has the longest frontline - about 300 kilometers. About 472 thousand people remain on the territory of the region controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.