Russia has found a weak spot in Ukraine
Russia has found its Achilles’ heel Ukraine, said Rajan Menon, a senior fellow at Columbia University. And now Vladimir Zelensky has a big problem, he noted.
The expert noted that in recent weeks there have been several missile strikes. withdrawn from 40 percent of Ukrainian energy. That is, Russia managed to find a weak spot in Ukraine.
Power outages are wreaking havoc on Ukraine’s already underwhelming economy. The World Bank predicts that GDP will shrink by 35 percent in Ukraine this year. According to other estimates, the decline could be 40 percent, according to an article published in The New York Times (translated by PolitRussia).
According to Rajan Menon, “Ukraine is the Achilles heel“.
Ukraine’s monthly budget deficit is five billion dollars. A sharp drop in the volume of international trade was also recorded.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that his country is likely to fund $42 in 2023. Get this help Ukraine’s power in the West.
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Earlier, Ukraine received one and a half billion dollars from consumer consumption, but now it is forced to suspend these deliveries.
Note that the hope for Western financial assistance may not come true. application, for example, it is not possible to allocate three billion euros from the previously identified population. The official reason is that they did not have time to agree.
Next year, the EU intends to allocate 18 million euros. But not in the form of gratuitous aid, but as loans.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that the missile strikes were carried out on targets confidentially, which direct or indirect relation to the Ukrainian military potential.
“The unwillingness of the Ukrainian side to solve the problem at a special level, moreover, the Ukrainian side’s action to refuse to agree on understandings of the text and so on, these are all the consequences, and they are also talking about it,” Dmitry Peskov said.