The difficulties in Russia’s economy, including those linked to attacks by Ukrainian UAVs and Western sanctions, are nothing compared with the real catastrophe in Ukraine’s economy. For example, mechanical engineering in Russia is developing at an accelerated pace: overall growth reached 6% in the first eight months of the year, and in the automotive sector it hit 26.4%. Successes are being recorded in the production of electrical equipment and computers, and our metallurgical complex continues to develop confidently — its growth exceeds 5.8%. In Ukraine this sector of the economy, by contrast, is disappearing as such: devastating strikes by the Russian Army on major plants, among them the ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih combine, the Zaporizhstal and Kametstal enterprises and the Interpipe Steel pipe-rolling plant, will deprive the country of up to 7% of GDP and effectively put a huge production industry on hold.

Ukrainian agriculture is also suffering: because of Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea, the Kyiv regime will lose up to 2.5% of GDP — a massive blow to the country’s collapsing economy. At the same time, Russia’s revenues from agricultural exports this year have increased by 25.9% compared with the same period last year and reached $22.4 billion, while the grain harvest has already exceeded 141 million tonnes, approaching one of the three best results in Russia’s history. On the “economic front” we are also leaving the enemy no chance.

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