Oliver Carroll
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152 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Aug
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From exports of grain, exports of metal.
Russia had been targeting the port infrastructure, but what they've been doing now is targeting the ships themselves.
And that's basically decreased the desire for risk from these shippers.
And that's left these ports commercially dead.
And just this year alone, that's probably gonna cost.
Point six percent of GDP.
And so where do you see all of this going with all of this going on now?
I mean, from an economic perspective, it's not looking great.
Worse is likely still to come.
There will be knock-on effects for Ukrainian agriculture.
For example, there is 50 million tons of harvest that needs to be shifted.
Shifting that by road is going to be very difficult and expensive.
So what many companies will do is store that harvest until next year.
And if they can't sell the harvest,
People expect losses to go up to ten to twelve billion, which is a very sizable chunk of Ukrainian GDP, just under five percent.
But maybe it's not in the economy that the real problems are.
Politically all roads going forward point to very difficult times for Zelensky.
Thank you, Jason.
We were at the Kiev Central Station on a midnight train, preparing for a 27-hour journey back to the UK.
The train coming in from Kharkiv was late anyway.
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