You need to read your Carnegie link.
It doesn’t contain anything to contradict the regional GDP numbers I provided you that dispute the preposterous notion that the entire rest of Ukraine, with the largest cities, has only 5% of the GDP. In fact, the Carnegie link doesn’t have anything about regional growth, and no information more current than 2010. You’re peddling fiction and then hoping no one will check.
Or did you never check? Try it now, tell me where in that Carnegie link you find support for the idea that Luhansk and Donetsk regions create 95% of Ukrainian GDP.
You’ve been duped.
No, I don’t.
Plus, the 95% mention inherently infers that most of Ukraine’s industrial capacity and resources are located in the southern and eastern areas held by the Russians. Southern Ukraine was and is the most industrialized part of Ukraine.