Russia’s presence in Ukraine has brought Western sanctions onto Russia, but it has also pushed Ukraine to the brink of bankruptcy, and into an IMF-led $40bn bailout. Due to the conflict, industrial production in Donetsk dropped 60 percent year on year, and in Lugansk it fell by 85 percent. Ukraine’s government says it is spending $10m a day on the military campaign in the east. And there is the human cost: official UN estimates say more than half a million east Ukrainians are now internally …read more
Source: Egylovers
