Vegetable oil productionLONDON, Apr 8 British supermarket chain Waitrose has limited the sale of oil to two bottles per one hand due to a shortage related to the situation in Ukraine, writes the Daily Mail. According to the publication, from today on the shelves of Waitrose stores there were signs limiting the sale of all cooking oils to two bottles due to a shortage due to a military operation in Ukraine, which provides about 80% of oil consumption in the UK.Brits advised to cook in microwave ovens to save electricityWaitrose said in a statement: «We want to ensure that customers continue to have a choice of vegetable oil, so we ask them to buy no more than two units each,» Waitrose said.Another major supermarket chain Sainsbury's has posted signs in its stores warning shoppers that sunflower oil may be substituted for rapeseed oil in some products.»We work closely with our suppliers to ensure customers continue to have cooking oils to choose from, including » temporarily» switches from sunflower oil to rapeseed oil in the production of its chips, insisting customers won't be able to tell any difference. Supermarket chain Coop also said this week that it is working closely with suppliers to find alternatives such as rapeseed oil. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on Feb. 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» impoverished overnight due to the energy crisis. For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only in terms of military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
