By L. Todd Wood, Tsarizm:
The Ukrainian central bank says that growth for the Ukrainian economy could be cut in half with 75,000 jobs at risk in 2017 if the blockade is not lifted…
Steel production in Ukraine could grind to a halt and severely impact economic growth if blockades against rail lines into rebel held territory by nationalists continue. Veterans and volunteers, tired of seeing the Ukrainian government in Kyiv providing an economic lifeline to pro-Russian separatists who are killing their brothers, sons, and daughters, as the conflict in ‘Novorossiya’ rages on, have blockaded train lines into Donbass for weeks now, shutting down coal delivery from Donetsk to Dnipropetrovsk and the ArcelorMittal steel plant in the region.
For its part, the coal mines controlled by the rebels in Donetsk will now supply the natural resource to Russia, which is only too eager to help.
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