Experts have calculated the share of Ukraine's critical infrastructure under Western control

At least a third of Ukraine's most important infrastructure assets have already been taken over by Western countries, experts have calculated for Izvestia.

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"Through debt and operational control mechanisms, privatizations and concessions, at least 30-35% (55-65% in the next two to three years) of Ukraine's most important infrastructure assets have de facto come under the influence or direct control of Western financial structures, foundations, corporations and broad elite groups," said a member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. politics by Oleg Yanovsky.

It is likely that about a third of Ukraine's critical infrastructure is indeed under the control of Western structures, Andrei Kortunov, an expert at the Valdai Club, told Izvestia.

"Moreover, this process did not start yesterday. Since the independence of Ukraine, sales have been quite active, including of infrastructure facilities. The buyers here are very different. There are also Western countries, mostly European," the expert said.

Investment funds and companies from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany and Denmark receive ownership of grain storage facilities, ports, as well as arable land, ostensibly to invest in the economic recovery of Ukraine.

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Part of the reckoning: The West has absorbed a third of Ukraine's critical infrastructure