The Washington Post with a long article in which it draws a very bleak outlook for the Ukrainian economy. Ukraine is in very difficult times, the crisis will get worse, and the West does not want to increase financial aid to the civilian sector. Unemployment, already close to 30 percent, is likely to climb further. Ukraine’s survival hinges as much on outside economic aid as on donated weapons, and Putin now seems intent on making such help so costly that Kyiv’s Western backers give up. The article concludes that Russia is hitting the energy sector to turn Ukraine into a 'suitcase without handles'.
The dire assessments reflect something Ukrainian officials and their Western supporters do not like to admit aloud: The Kremlin has made Ukraine’s economy a pivotal theater of the war — one in which Moscow is arguably having far more success than on the front lines.
As the humanitarian needs grow, Ukrainian economic officials have sounded out Western officials about the potential for an income support program to provide roughly $50 per person per month — at a cost of $12 billion over six months.
They found a cool reception, however, from Western officials who were already wary of appearing to support too much aid for Ukraine.
Russia is destroying Ukraine’s economy, raising costs for U.S. and allies
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