At a Russia-Ukraine road crossing last week, Russian officials held up for three days a tractor trailer from Uzbekistan loaded with cotton gauze for Ukrainian production of medical masks and protective garments.

At a Russia-Ukraine road crossing last week, Russian officials held up for three days a tractor trailer from Uzbekistan loaded with cotton gauze for Ukrainian production of medical masks and protective garments. “On the eve of the peak of the epidemic,” Alexander Sokolovsky, owner of Textile-Contact, complains on Facebook. Noting that in 2014, he lost a big garment factory in Donetsk, he writes: “Now you don’t let our garment workers get the raw materials paid and produced in Uzbekistan, which simply crossed in transit the territory of Russia?” It appears the cargo was released over the weekend.