Oleh Cheslavskyi

Russian strikes have destroyed over 400 thousand square meters of Ukrainian business warehouse space in a single month, the equivalent of 56 football fields, Forbes Ukraine has calculated. Fozzy Group, Rozetka, Epicentr, Nova Poshta, and hundreds of entrepreneurs who stored their goods on the infrastructure of the big players have all come under fire.

There is one game two nations can play forever, and the winner is always a third. It is the game of the ledger. Who struck first, who killed more, whose villages burned more often, whose children lie deeper in the ground. The rules are simple. You lay your dead on the table, I lay mine, and we keep going until nothing can be built between us except a shared grave. moscow knows these rules better than either of us, because moscow is the one who wrote them.

There is one project that, in recent years, has fed the Kremlin more reliably than oil and gas: the war. War not as a political tragedy, not as a catastrophe, but as a business venture, a joint-stock company with a transparent model. On the input side, cheap if badly rusted Soviet stockpiles, the cheap blood of contract soldiers and convicts, a fat oil rent.