{"id":1541943,"date":"2025-06-16T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1541943"},"modified":"2025-06-16T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:45:00","slug":"ukraines-infrastructure-damage-exceeds-175-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/ukraines-infrastructure-damage-exceeds-175-billion\/1541943\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s Infrastructure Damage Exceeds $175 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Ukraine&#8217;s Infrastructure Damage Exceeds $175 Billion<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>More than three years into Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/9087\/russia-ukraine-war-2022\/\">war<\/a>\u00a0has already inflicted over $175 billion in direct damage to the country\u2019s buildings and infrastructure, according to the latest estimates from the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/34614\/estimated-cost-of-direct-war-damage-in-ukraine\/\">As Statista&#8217;s Ann Fleck reports<\/a>, this marks <strong>a $23 billion increase in damage compared to the previous year\u2019s assessment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/34614\/estimated-cost-of-direct-war-damage-in-ukraine\/\" title=\"Infographic: Ukraine\u2019s Infrastructure Damage Exceeds $175 Billion | Statista\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The data comes from the fourth\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openknowledge.worldbank.org\/server\/api\/core\/bitstreams\/96bd9c94-c327-49b4-8aff-fe125686f04e\/content\">Ukraine Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment<\/a>\u00a0(RDNA4), which covers the period from February 24, 2022, to December 31, 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The World Bank\u2019s findings<strong> highlight the toll of the war on Ukraine\u2019s civilian infrastructure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Residential buildings alone account for 33 percent of all direct damage, while transport infrastructure &#8211; including roads and railways &#8211; makes up another 21 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Energy systems (12 percent), along with commercial and industrial facilities (10 percent), account for the four hardest-hit sectors, which together represent nearly three-quarters of the total damage bill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Mon, 06\/16\/2025 &#8211; 02:45<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/ukraines-infrastructure-damage-exceeds-175-billion\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/ukraines-infrastructure-damage-exceeds-175-billion<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Infrastructure Damage Exceeds $175 Billion More than three years into Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, the\u00a0war\u00a0has already inflicted over $175 billion in direct damage to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1541944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1541944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}