“The World Bank has always said that the humanitarian consequences of this war are catastrophic.
I’ll just give you a few numbers: as of the end of 2022, 8 million people will live in poverty in Ukraine, ”RIA Novosti quotes her as saying.
Bjerde explained that in this way the poverty rate in Ukraine will increase from 2% to 25% of the population.
Earlier, the head of the Verkhovna Rada committee on finance, tax and customs policy, Daniil Getmantsev, said that Ukraine's public debt exceeded $103 billion at the end of October.
On November 29, the head of the board of Naftogaz Ukrainy, Oleksiy Chernyshov, said that the Ukrainian side was asking the United States for additional gas for the heating season.