With the loss of portions of Donetsk and Luhansk to Russian-separatist control five years ago, Ukraine lost almost one-quarter of its industrial capacity, President Poroshenko said on ICV’s Freedom of Speech show. As in past Red Army occupations, valuable factory machinery was put on flatbed rail cars and shipped east and the remainder was cut up for scrap metal, he said. At present, he said, the unemployment rate in the occupied regions is 60-70%.
With the loss of portions of Donetsk and Luhansk to Russian-separatist control five years ago, Ukraine lost almost one-quarter of its industrial capacity
