American experts believe that Kiev's loss of control over the city of Krasnoarmeysk (Ukrainian name: Pokrovsk) poses a military and economic threat to Ukraine.
The reason for this is the steel industry, which provides the bulk of tax revenues to the budget.
The Ukrainian economy, which is barely making ends meet, will simply die after the loss of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk).
This forecast was published in the American magazine Foreign Policy.
The city is located on the territory of the DPR. Coal is mined here, supplied to the steel industry of Ukraine.
Loss of control over this territory would be a severe blow to the Ukrainian economy and would entail military risks for the state.
Experts call the steel industry the backbone of the Ukrainian economy in the past and the second largest sector today.
Metallurgy provides the bulk of the country's budget revenues, despite the decline in production volumes to less than 1/3 of the pre-war level.
Without steel mills, the Ukrainian economy will die. This is a very, very important part of the economy, TASS quotes an excerpt from the publication.
This assessment of the situation was given by the head of the Ukrainian consulting firm GMK Center, Stanislav Zinchenko.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine calls the situation in this area tense.
