Each hour of business operations halted due to air raid alerts costs Ukraine $45M – Economy Ministry

Ukrinform reports this, citing Economy and Environmental Protection Minister Oleksandr Kravchenko in an interview with The Guardian . Russian attacks on industrial facilities, warehouses, logistics centers and data centers are an attempt to “destroy virtually the entire economy”, Kravchenko said. “What we did not fully anticipate was how quickly Russia would develop these jet-powered drones and begin using them to attack virtually everything,” he noted. The attacks are forcing a significant part of the Ukrainian economy to suspend operations regularly: during air raid alerts, workers move to shelters, while the alerts can last up to 10 hours a day.