Russia causes over USD 27 billion in damages to Ukrainian agriculture, USD 3 billion to farmers

This was reported by Ukraine's Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security.

Direct losses include:

• land and unharvested crops - USD 2.135 billion;

• equipment - USD 926 million;

• lost manufactured products - USD 613 million;

• granaries - USD 272 million;

• animal husbandry - USD 136 million;

• factors of production - USD 120 million;

• perennial plantations - USD 89 million.

Indirect damages include:

• losses of producers from the decrease in prices for export-oriented crops - USD 11.9 billion;

• underachieved harvest - USD 9.6 billion;

• losses due to increased production costs - USD 859 million;

• animal husbandry - USD 682 million;

• loss of harvest of perennial plantations - USD 222.4 million.

In addition, as a result of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian farmers lost products, equipment, and unharvested winter crops worth more than USD 3 billion.

Ukraine's Center for Strategic Communications noted that as a result of the actions of the Russian Federation, a number of countries in Africa and Asia, which were the main importers of Ukrainian agricultural products, were at risk of a food crisis.