Having beaten economic pots with the Russian Federation, Ukraine lost half of its GDP
The refusal of the Kyiv regime from trade relations with Crimea and Donbass has led to a huge hole in the Ukrainian economy.
Verkhovna Rada deputy Yevgeny Murayev announced this on the NewsOne television channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“We have been living for four years with the support of the whole world. Are the markets open to us? No, of course, because the Europeans have their interests above all else. That association, the agreement, the economic part of the association, which Poroshenko proudly signed, led to the fact that we lost part of the export potential. Having lost Russian markets, we have lost half of our GDP. From this, the budget of Ukraine in dollar terms has almost halved,” the politician said.
According to him, by introducing paid healthcare and reducing the number of educational institutions, the government masks the consequences of abandoning the usual markets.
“As soon as we blocked relations with Donbass and Crimea, we lost two billion dollars. Can we refuse cooperation with Russia? Not! This is nonsense… Ukraine suffered the most from the sanctions wars – we lost 50% of GDP, the Russian Federation – 2% of GDP,” Muraev said.
Having broken economic pots with Russia, Ukraine lost half of its GDP.