Minister of Finance of Ukraine Sergey Marchenko assessed the damage from the war in the country of 500 billion dollars. “Many logistic chains are completely torn, many enterprises are physically destroyed, some cannot work in war regime, many workers just left. The Ministry of Economy believes that the losses will be from a third to half of GDP. On another assessment, it’s about $ 500 billion. Exactly It will be possible to calculate only after the war, “said Marchenko, who quotes BBC.
The state budget revenues of Ukraine have declined sharply due to problems at customs arising in connection with the war.
“At the customs we collect 15% of the arrivals of peacetime. Despite the fact that Odessa is not occupied, Odessa customs does not function. And she brought up to 20% of the proceeds. Kyiv customs also stopped, only the Western direction is functioning,” He explained.