The Russian-appointed "authorities" of the occupied territories of Ukraine have banned the import of essential products there. This was announced by the mayor of the occupied Melitopol Ivan Fedorov.

Under the ban, including medicines and hygiene products for children and adults.

“Thousands of Melitopol residents suffering from chronic diseases may be on the verge of life and death. After all, it is impossible to buy imported medicines in the city,” Fedorov writes.

Fedorov is not the first representative of the Ukrainian administrations of the occupied cities to report problems with medicine. In early August, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko , reported that every fourth patient dies in the city's hospitals. All normal places are given to the Russian military, and Mariupol residents are offered to buy the necessary medicines in pharmacies controlled by the “head of the DPR” Denis Pushilin and the local occupation authorities.