The fighting in Ukraine continues — even as the Russian military appears to be repositioning itself to achieve some kind of victory in the Donbas on the eastern side of Ukraine, and even if it means giving up on a quick victory at the gates of Kyiv. Can Ukraine hang on to hold off the Russians?
One terrible thing we know for sure — the hostilities inflicted upon Ukraine from a Russian assault on its neighbour are not poised to end, certainly not yet.
Nevertheless, rockets are still being fired and artillery bombardments continue to take place in many parts of the country. Russian military actions, such as the destruction of a fuel-storage facility in Lviv, the westernmost big city in the country, continue. In other parts of the country, notably around cities such as Kharkiv and Mariupol, and in the eastern Donbas region, the ground fighting also continues with little let-up.
In fact, if no more destruction were to occur beyond what has already been delivered and if the fighting were, miraculously, to stop now, international economists are estimating that the damage to Ukraine’s physical infrastructure and the death, severe disruptions, dislocations and trauma to its human capital would take at least a decade of heavy lifting before the country could even return to the economic levels that had prevailed before hostilities began.
The country already has a munitions industry, although those factories have come under substantial Russian aerial attacks. But, in response to need and opportunity, Ukrainians have pulled together a network of machine shops, garages and similar facilities to carry out necessary repairs, thus sending back into battle numerous previously Russian tanks and other military vehicles.
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