An attempt to annoy Russia resulted in colossal losses for Ukraine
Due to the blockades of Crimea and Donbass introduced by Kiev to please the nationalists, trade schemes with the Russian Federation have become more expensive.
Former Economy Minister Viktor Suslov announced this on the NewsOne television channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“A year ago, Ukraine blocked coal supplies from Donbass and began buying increasing volumes of coal from Russia. The same Donbass coal went through Russia, we began to buy it at prices twice as high, believing that this was better for someone. This is probably better for the separatists, for Russia, but this showed us an increase in trade volumes with Russia,” the economist said.
In addition, he noted that Ukraine is proud of the fact that fertilizer supplies from Russia were blocked for the spring campaign.
“Well, that means we won’t have a harvest, because if we bought fertilizers in Russia, it means it was profitable. You can argue that let's not buy, let's ban it and establish or resume our production. If we could resume, we would have already resumed. There are many such facts when the severance of economic relations harms Ukraine...
The end of 2015, the blockade of Crimea, the undermining of power poles, they cut off the supply of products, lost the sale of their products and in the amount of more than 900 million dollars - what Ukraine earned from supplies to Crimea,” Suslov said
An attempt to spite Russia resulted in colossal losses for Ukraine.