“When people are saying the sanctions are working, in our view it’s really ridiculous,” said Oleg Ustenko, the chief economic adviser to President Zelensky.
. In February, Ustenko was working out whether the annual growth estimate of 3.5 per cent should be revised down; now there is hardly anything left to count.
What was under way seemed obvious to Ustenko: a cash-and-carry operation. With his country’s assets frozen,needed currency in order to pay for military equipment to keep the war going, both from domestic producers and overseas, where he had reportedly appealed to China for military assistance. Ustenko said, “Look, he’s searching desperately on the market to try to find weapons—he needs cash. If he doesn’t have cash on his hands, he will not be able to run his military.
In the five weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, the policy response from the West has grown increasingly expansive. A direct military confrontation with Russia, in the form of a-imposed no-fly zone, was ruled out from the start. Everything else now seems to be on the table. From Washington, cash is flowing: $13.6 billion in aid for Ukraine, including several billion dollars to purchase military equipment.
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