Funny thing, the ethnic Russian areas that Russia has now taken over constitute 20% of the land area of the place, but more like 95% of the GDP... That tells me that the native hoho-speaking hohos do not have much to recommend them. Kind of like our own demokkkrats...
You mean the industrial areas, the richest farmland and the ports are where Ukraine’s most productive GDP was?
Who knew?!
Play that game with the USA. Most of the conservative heartlands would be below San Francisco.
Oh - your math is illiterate.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/296140/ukraine-gross-domestic-product/
See where those big plummets were? What do they have in common?
They all coincide with Russia screwing around with eastern Europe, Ukraine and Georgia in particular.
The Gross regional product of Donbas in 2013 before Russia screwed around with it was ₴220bn (€20bn) out of a GDP close to €180bn. So it was about 11% of the GDP of Ukraine.
In 2021, Ukraine’s entire gross domestic product (GDP) not including the occupied areas was estimated at about $197bn, which is €182.80bn. By the end of 2021 according to Russia the GRP of Donbas was ₴335 billion (10 billion Euros in 2021 out of €197bn.
10/197 is quite a lot lower than 20/180. Get a calculator. dingus.
So actually your math is incoherent. The Russian annexations have actually tanked the economies of the regions it’s annexed, while the rest of Ukraine that hasn’t been turned into a turd sandwich by Russia is holding its own.
And every time Russia’s done this, it’s done sent an upward GDP trajectory into a ski slope.
Economics 101: if you want a country to be vaguely capable of surviving on its own, don’t let Muscovy anywhere near it.