War causes US$170 billion in losses to Ukraine – KSE Institute

The total amount of direct damage to Ukraine's infrastructure due to Russia's full-scale invasion reached US£170 billion as of November 2024. Source: a report by the KSE Institute Details: The housing sector suffered the most damage, with direct losses estimated at US£60 billion.

As a result of the war, 236,000 residential buildings, including 209,000 houses, 27,000 apartment buildings, and 600 dormitories, were destroyed or damaged.

Losses in transport infrastructure amounted to US£38.5 billion. The hostilities damaged more than 26,000 kilometres of roads, costing the country US£28.3 billion. Other transport sectors also suffered significant losses:

• railway - US£4.3 billion,
• port infrastructure - US£0.85 billion,
• the aviation industry - US£2 billion.

Cars were also affected - 260,000 cars were destroyed or damaged, with losses estimated at US£2.2 billion.

The total losses of Ukraine's energy sector amounted to US£14.6 billion. The Russians have completely destroyed the Kakhovka and Dniprovska hydroelectric power plants and the Trypillia and Zmiiv thermal power plants. Other generating capacities, high-voltage substations and oil and gas infrastructure facilities were also heavily damaged.

The agricultural sector lost US£10.3 billion.

130,000 pieces of agricultural machinery, 4 million tonnes of grain storage facilities and 16,000 hectares of perennial crops were destroyed. The fighting and fires damaged 298,000 hectares of forests, which is another US£4.5 billion in losses. The damage to the educational infrastructure has amounted to US£7.3 billion.

More than 4,000 educational institutions have been destroyed or damaged. The healthcare sector reportedly lost US£4.3 billion, with 1,554 medical facilities damaged. The damage to Ukraine's culture, sports, and the tourism industry is estimated at US£4 billion.

3,921 cultural sites, 399 religious buildings, and 343 sports complexes were destroyed. Telecommunications and digital infrastructure lost US£1.2 billion. In the liberated areas, the damage to networks sometimes reached 100%.

Background:

• Over the 1,000 days of war in Ukraine, the environmental damage caused by the hostilities is estimated at approximately US£71 billion.
• As of May 2024, the damage and losses to Ukraine's energy sector as a result of Russia's full-scale invasion had amounted to US£56.2 billion.

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