Working out the hit to the ukranian economy at the moment is quite difficult. A research institute in vienna looked at the gd p of the regions that are affected by the war, and that comes to about a third. And there is another way to look at surveys, for example, by the central bank. They found that 30 % of businesses, so again, roughly a third, have stopped working completely.
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