Putin Says Kiev ‘Opened Pandora’s Box’ by Striking Russian Economic Targets – Moscow To Hit Back At Ukraine’s ‘Most Sensitive Economic Sectors’ (VIDEOS)
Putin Says Kiev ‘Opened Pandora’s Box’ by Striking Russian Economic Targets – Moscow To Hit Back At Ukraine’s ‘Most Sensitive Economic Sectors’ (VIDEOS)
August 23, 2026
Kiev is starting to see shortages of a wide variety of produce in grocery stores and markets.
Early in the summer, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky announced a ‘40-day campaign of deep strikes in Russia’ to pressure Russians to end the war.
Like in the 2023 failed counteroffensive or the disastrous 2024 Kursk incursion, Globalist shills and the MSM were ready to claim that Ukraine was ‘now turning the tide’, had a ‘decisive upper hand’, and was even ‘winning the war’.
But what really happened was that Russian forces increased attacks on all of Ukraine, with combined missile/drone packages primarily targeting Kiev.
Last night, Kyiv looked like this. Russia targeted the capital with 4 Zircon/Oniks missiles, 24 Iskander-M/S-400 missiles, and 115 strike UAVs including Shahed (mostly jet-powered), Gerbera, and Italmas types, as well as “Parodiya” decoy drones (98 shot down). The Ukrainian Air… pic.twitter.com/rp4sqmK9Aq
— WarTranslated (@wartranslated) August 5, 2026
Ballistic strikes on Kiev.
The city is left without Air Defence systems yet Zelensky chooses to poke Putin with drone attacks on Moscow. Which all failed, but there are consequences. https://t.co/1AvItUgM0Z pic.twitter.com/5TIgBqWFF7
— Spetsnaℤ 007
(@Alex_Oloyede2) August 19, 2026
KN-23 ballistic missiles striking Kiev tonight.
Last video is particularly spicy. pic.twitter.com/j4wNlSrASV
— ayden (@squatsons) August 19, 2026
We saw massive strikes on July 19 and 29, and August 1, 5, 8 and 20.
And now, besides the power generating and transmission on the brink, food shortage is another threat to the population.
Responsible Statecraft reported:
“The [Ukrainian] drone attacks have elicited the most severe Russian retaliation yet. Moscow has markedly stepped up its strikes on Ukraine, including one of the largest ballistic missile attacks of the entire war [August 20], at the precise time the United States and Europe are running low on interceptors to defend it. With Russia now attacking Ukraine’s port facilities and commercial vessels in the Black Sea, the country is being starved of billions of dollars of revenue, and its GDP could drop by as much as 1.5%.”
Some outlets estimate the drop at 2% of GDP.
“In other words, the ultimately unsuccessful Ukrainian drone assault is something we have now seen over and over again: Kiev embarks on an audacious, headline-grabbing military gambit; Western media and officials seize on it to claim the tide is turning; and then when the smoke clears, it turns out nothing has been achieved but an escalation of the war. Ukraine winds up battered even worse, and with less favorable negotiating terms on the table.
Aa It’s a consistent pattern: a combination of wishful thinking and misinformation does just enough to keep the idea of a military victory alive, undermining the chance for painful but necessary negotiations, and ultimately rebounding in ever worsening ways on Ukraine and its people. The major human, economic, and social costs for Ukraine of continuing war, meanwhile, remain invisible to much of the Western public, which is instead fed a recurring diet of headlines and rhetoric assuring it that victory is close at hand.”
Now, as the upcoming winter promises to be the most severe for the population, there’s another nightmare scenario: empty shelves.
Empty shelves in Kyiv stores.
This happened after Zelensky decided to strike Russian warehouses. pic.twitter.com/5ioms3ZF8M
— Diana Panchenko
(@Panchenko_X) August 12, 2026
An empty shelf in a Kyiv supermarket is a sight the capital hasn’t seen since the early days of the full-scale invasion.
While Ukrainian supermarkets have remained well-stocked throughout the war, Russian strikes on Aug. 5 targeted the logistics centers of several major… pic.twitter.com/AVlDYXhABI
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) August 11, 2026
The New York Times reported:
“For the first time since the initial months after the 2022 invasion, the city’s residents are experiencing shortages of a wide range of grocery staples because of Russian ballistic missile strikes on critical distribution centers.
‘It’s a nightmare, a nightmare’, said a Silpo shopper, Nina Kirichuk, 67, a retired hairdresser, her cart carrying bread and two kinds of herring. ‘I’m horrified. I wanted to buy sugar, but I looked and there wasn’t any. And there’s an entire section over there that’s completely empty. I didn’t even go in there. I don’t want to look at it and upset myself’.”
Kiev supermarkets see empty shelves as logistics unravel after Russian retaliation strikes
Zelensky’s ordered strikes on Russian ports and warehouses prompted mirror measures from Moscow
The result — empty stores, and Ukrainians feeling the blowback firsthand pic.twitter.com/QFgLssknYH
— RT (@RT_com) August 9, 2026
“Moscow’s missiles struck at least four warehouses for one supermarket supply company on Aug. 5, killing at least six workers and severely disrupting the supply of food to multiple store chains. The effects have been felt mainly in the capital, but also in far-flung places like Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine.
An orange sign written in white Cyrillic letter stands in front of empty store shelves. It explains in Ukrainian that products are missing because of a Russian attack, says they will be restocked.”
And what’s worse: the dire situation is apparently only the beginning, as Russia’s Putin is promising continued attacks on the Ukrainian economy.
Reuters reported:
“Russian President Vladimir Putin said in comments published on Saturday that Kiev had opened ‘Pandora’s box’ with its strikes on Russian economic targets, saying that Russia would hit back at Ukraine’s ‘most sensitive economic sectors’.
[…] ‘The Kiev regime set out to damage our economy. What did it do? It opened this Pandora’s box itself. Well then, expect a response targeting your most sensitive economic sectors’, Putin said in comments to a Russian state television journalist.
[…] ‘We do face challenges regarding the shipment of our goods, but we will resolve these issues. Consequently, there will be no shortage on the global market’, Putin said.”
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