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Date14 February 2022
AuthorAcunto, Steve

Ukraine's top government economic adviser Oleg Ustenko has issued a statement that Russian forces have so far destroyed at least $100 billion worth of infrastructure, buildings and other physical assets.

Ustenko, chief economic adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, told an online conference on economics that the war has caused 50% of Ukrainian businesses to shut down completely, while the other half are operating at well below their capacity.

He said the damage estimate is "very approximate" and...

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