Russia-Ukraine live news: War to slash Ukraine’s GDP 45 percent

Russia’s invasion has shuttered companies, slashed exports and destroyed productive capability, the World Financial institution says.

A view of the damage on a building during ongoing conflicts in the city of Mariupol under the control of the Russian military and pro-Russian separatists
World Financial institution report estimates that over half of Ukraine's companies are closed, whereas others nonetheless open are working at nicely beneath regular capability [Leon Klein/Anadolu Agency]

  • Ukraine’s GDP output will contract by greater than 45 p.c this yr because of the Russian invasion, in keeping with a World Financial institution forecast.
  • The World Financial institution additionally forecast Russia’s GDP output to fall by greater than 11 p.c because of punitive sanctions.
  • Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has mentioned he'll meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

INTERACTIVE Russia Ukraine War Who controls what Day 46

Listed below are the newest updates:

5 minutes in the past (21:39 GMT)

Austrian chief set for Putin talks

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has mentioned he would meet the Russian president on Monday in Moscow. It could be Putin’s first face-to-face assembly with a counterpart from the European Union since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in late February.

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Karl Nehammer
Nehammer is ready to go to Moscow on Monday [File: Leonhard Foeger/Reuters]


38 minutes in the past (21:06 GMT)

Conflict to slash Ukraine’s financial output, says World Financial institution

Ukraine’s financial output will doubtless contract by 45.1 p.c this yr as Russia’s invasion has compelled companies to shut, slashed exports and destroyed productive capability, the World Financial institution has mentioned in a brand new evaluation of the warfare’s financial impacts.

The World Financial institution additionally forecast Russia’s 2022 GDP output to fall 11.2 p.c on account of punishing monetary sanctions imposed by the US and its Western allies on Russia’s banks, state-owned enterprises and different establishments.

The World Financial institution’s Jap Europe area, comprising Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, is forecast to indicate a GDP contraction of 30.7 p.c this yr, on account of shocks from the warfare and disruption of commerce.

Devastation from an airstrike on a shoe factory in Dnipro
Devastation from an airstrike on a shoe manufacturing facility in Dnipro, Ukraine [File: Emre Caylak/Al Jazeera]


58 minutes in the past (20:46 GMT)

Ukraine says 2,824 extra folks evacuated

A complete of two,824 folks have been evacuated from Ukrainian cities by humanitarian corridors on Sunday, together with 213 residents of the besieged southern port of Mariupol, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk mentioned in a web based put up.


60 minutes in the past (20:44 GMT)

Highly effective blasts heard in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, Mykolaiv: Native media

A sequence of highly effective explosions have been heard in Ukraine’s northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv and likewise in Mykolaiv, a metropolis close to the Black Sea within the southern a part of the nation, Ukrainian media has reported.


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