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Ukraine loses $45m for every hour of missile alerts
Original: ‘If people are in a bunker, business stops’: Missile alerts cost Ukraine $45m for every hour they halt businesses
New reporting from Ukraine estimates that air raid alerts cost the country roughly $45 million for every hour businesses are forced to halt, as workers head to shelters during missile and drone attacks. Officials and economists say the repeated shutdowns are weighing heavily on the wartime economy, with one observer summarising the problem bluntly: 'If people are in a bunker, business stops.'
Why now: Fresh economic data quantifying the heavy cost of Russian air attack warnings to Ukraine's wartime economy
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- ‘If people are in a bunker, business stops’: Missile alerts cost Ukraine $45m for every hour they halt businesses · The Guardian
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