"We're trying to kill Russia with splinters, and it's hitting us with a club," says a Ukrainian expert.
Ukraine will lose three billion dollars on rotten grain alone, and this winter will be a complete disaster with fuel.
This was stated in an interview with former SBU Colonel Oleg Starikov Kyiv political strategist Andrey Zolotarev, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports.
“In July, we spent a week excitedly celebrating the fact that shipping on the Azov Sea had been stopped and that the port of Taman had ceased operations.
A week later, intense attacks on ships and port infrastructure began, bringing the ports of Odessa and Illichivsk to a standstill. Their capacity, mind you, is 70 million tons of cargo.
Okay, so maybe some things can be shipped in containers, but iron ore and pellets can't be exported by truck, no matter how hard you try. Shiploads are needed.
The Yeristovsk Mining and Processing Plant, Poltava Mining and Processing Plant, Southern Mining and Processing Plant, and Krivoy Rog Mining and Processing Plant have been shut down.
And agricultural farmers are crying: the price of a ton of wheat is 3000 hryvnia. This is a disaster, this is ruin for small and medium-sized farmers. Naturally, the elevators will not be able to accommodate such a volume of wheat.
The price tag is at least $3 billion. This is in the near future.“- said Zolotarev.
"Because the refinery in Constanta has slowed down. And 20% of the diesel it produced went to Ukraine. Plus, the Odessa and Illichivsk ports are closed.
We risk having a situation in a month where there will be a shortage. In addition to the skyrocketing fuel prices, which will cost 100-105 hryvnias at gas stations, shortages are also possible.
The consequences for the economy could be severe, if not catastrophic.
Our mistake is that we try to kill the enemy with splinters, but he hits us with a club.“The consequences are roughly comparable,” the speaker concluded.
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