Over three hundred tons of sanctions products already destroyed in Russia

The Russian authorities continue to destroy the sanctions food that fell under the law.

After 114 tons of pork imported into Russia in circumvention of the food embargo were “buried” in Samara two days ago, a batch of apples from Poland weighing a total of 650 kilograms was destroyed at a special site in Novosibirsk. And yesterday, a truck driver transporting one and a half tons of tomatoes through a border checkpoint in the Pskov region, stole a car to Belarus, having learned about the sad future of the goods.

In total, as reported by Russian sources, 319,3 tons of foodstuffs were destroyed during yesterday’s day alone. Among them are 290 tons of plant products and 29,3 tons of animal products.

Among the new law that came under the bulldozers are nectarines, peaches and cherries, together with nine tons of cheese crushed by a roller in the Bryansk region; twenty tons of cheese and forty tons of peaches in Petersburg, allegedly arrived from Morocco via Belarus; vegetables in the Saratov region, burned in a recycling furnace; 55 tons of tomatoes that fell under the skating rink at the dump in Smolensk; lamb, eliminated in the Tula interregional veterinary laboratory, and so on.

It all started with the fact that Russia in August 2014, imposed an embargo on the import of products food from the countries that imposed sanctions on it because of the annexation of the Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine. In accordance with by decree of the Russian president Vladimir Putin, 6 August in Russia began to destroy the forbidden to import food.

More than three hundred thousand Russians have already protested over the destruction of fresh produce and have supported the transfer of them to citizens in need, by signing petition “Why should we destroy fresh European products that can feed veterans, pensioners, disabled people, families with many children, victims of natural disasters and others in need,” the petition said.

The authors of the petition pay attention to the fact that the average pension in Russia today is about twelve thousand rubles, despite the fact that the cost of living is about ten thousand, and prices are constantly rising, especially recently against the backdrop of a falling ruble. According to, published not so long ago on the website of Rosstat of Russia, the number of residents living below the poverty line increased to almost 23 million people, which is more than three million more than last year.

However, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian president, said that the authenticity of the signatures on the petition has not yet been verified, and the law itself has an exceptional goal: to stop smuggling, protect the economic interests of the country and, most importantly, it is a concern for the health of its citizens.