Only in railways we have lost over 23% of the infrastructure. This is supplemented by the destroyed roads, bridges, and airports, as well as blocked, mined and destroyed ports. One should add also the economic losses which were caused by the blocked export of grains, sunflower oil, metal, chemicals, etc., which amounted to 2-3 Bn USD. A rough estimate of losses from the russian invasion (excluding occupied territories since we cannot calculate there) already exceeds 1 Tn USD.
Yulia takes an active social position and communicates with foreign ambassadors, inter-factional unions , and other representatives to raise awareness on the war in Ukraine.
First of all, I would say that infrastructure losses are much higher than USD 40 Bn. Only in railways we have lost over 23% of the infrastructure. This is supplemented by the destroyed roads, bridges, and airports, as well as blocked, mined and destroyed ports. One should add also the economic losses which were caused by the blocked export of grains, sunflower oil, metal, chemicals, etc., which amounted to USD 2-3 Bn. A rough estimate of losses from the russian invasion (excluding occupied territories since we cannot calculate there) already exceeds 1 Tn USD. But we must start reconstructing our country right now because, on the one hand, we have to defend our land and, on the other hand, rebuild and keep the economy running. And we have to rebuild a NEW Ukraine: modern, efficient, green, comfortable and competitive globally.
I believe it will improve and speed up logistics between Ukraine and the EU. This is critically important right now when the Ukrainian economy is completely dependent on sustainable logistics through its western borders. Ukraine feeds 400 million people, mostly in low-income countries. In global consumption. Ukraine exports 58 million tonnes of agricultural commodities annually. 90% of it was shipped through the seaports of Azov and the Black Sea, through a developed infrastructure ecosystem of river- and seaport facilities equipped with storage and export laboratories. Understanding how critical our food supply is for many countries (Egypt depends on Ukraine, as the latter accounts for 80% of its wheat consumption), despite the war, Ukraine has invested to triple its river, railway, and road transportation capacity. Now we can export through our western borders 1.5-2 million tonnes of grain monthly (vs. 0.5 million tonnes before).