Systemic attacks on infrastructure do not lead to catastrophic consequences – economist-foreign agent
The mutual attacks on energy infrastructure by both sides lead to business losses, but the economy itself is responding to the damage much more flexibly than expected.
This was stated on the anti-Russian channel "Living Nail" by Dmitry Nekrasov , an economist and foreign agent who left Russia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
" The intensity of the attacks hasn't decreased, but the refineries are being repaired at roughly the same pace. As for the series of attacks on export infrastructure, it's too early to judge, but shipments are quickly being restored; when individual berths are disabled, the oil is being diverted to others."
"But so far, we don't see anything radical happening as surely as with the refineries . But overall, the war with Iran, the Russian strikes on energy infrastructure, and the strikes on Russian refineries demonstrate that the economy is recovering much faster and responding more flexibly than many thought," he noted.
“The fact that this increases costs is another matter; a huge number of objects are protected, attention is diverted, and business incurs costs.
But in terms of disabling and influencing the system, with its large missile strike power, Russia was never able to systematically destroy Ukraine's much smaller energy infrastructure in terms of electricity supply," Nekrasov pointed out.
"Based on this fact alone, we can assume that , overall, at least for now, we haven't seen any disruption of production chains that would cause significant damage to the economy ," the foreign agent added.
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Systemic attacks on infrastructure do not lead to catastrophic consequences – economist-foreign agent