“Ukraine’s gross domestic product will fall by as much as half this year. Its budget deficit is $5bn a month and, by the end of 2022, foreign donors will have spent at least $27bn paying the salaries of Ukrainian public sector workers and soldiers”
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‘Without the port of Odesa, it made no difference that Kryviy Rih was safe, well-fortified and his steel plant was still standing with his workforce intact. “Without the port, there is no metal industry in Ukraine,” he says. “We have done everything that we could.”…’
“The cost to Ukraine’s economy of the physical destruction from Russia’s missiles and artillery is about $130bn, the Kyiv School of Economics estimated in June, with $26bn in damaged business infrastructure.” on.ft.com/3wxxw6Y
Ukraine is literally moving factories west. “Bit by bit, its 650 employees are now taking apart machines that weigh as much as 30 tons, putting the parts on the back of trucks & reassembling them in an abandoned industrial building 1,500km to the west on the border with Poland.” 
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