~There’s a reason Russia dumped Ukraine and Belarus twenty years ago.
Yes. They had stripped them of just about everything they could..~
Are you talking about Ukrainian government?
In fact Donetsk is a part of ‘rust belt’ generating $14,000 GDP per citizen into total Ukrainian economy.
It might be a ‘black hole’ by Russian standard, but the rest of Ukraine has a GDP of just $5,000.
The only reason why the west of Ukraine has new stadiums and subsidized housing and the ‘rust belt’ has potholes in the streets and dilapidated buildings in because central government taxes all it can from the east and redistributes it.
GDP per caita of Donetsk in 2011 (in USD) was $4,590.