The continuing Russian invasion of Ukraine could have disastrous economic consequences for most of the Eastern European country by the end of next year, according to the World Bank. World Bank is an ...

Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the economic impact of the conflict have thrown an additional 4 million children into poverty across Eastern Europe and Central Asia -- an almost 20 percent ...

The poverty rate in Ukraine last year increased from 5.5% to 24.2%, which means 7.1 million people are now below the poverty line. This is stated in the report of the World Bank, writes The Guardian.

In 2023, the number of people who had incomes at the subsistence level was about 9% of the total population, which is 7 times ...

Poverty in Ukraine has increased more than tenfold since the outbreak of the US/NATO-Russia war, according to the latest data from the World Bank (WB). Officially, 25 percent of the country’s ...

MOSCOW, March 20. /TASS/. French President Emmanuel Macron is following the same script as his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, who has led Ukraine into a deadlock and poverty, Viktor ...

Soaring energy prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could have pushed millions of people around the world into extreme poverty in 2022, researchers warned on Thursday, urging governments ...

BORODYANKA, Ukraine—Lines snake outside churches and aid stations that hand out bread and secondhand clothing. Several restaurants in Kyiv offer free meals for the elderly, whose meager pensions have ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have reversed three decades of progress in reducing poverty, according to the World Bank, which warned that the global goal of eradicating ...

BUDAPEST -- Rozina sits at a table, practicing writing her name in a school in the Hungarian capital's eighth district. She has freckles on her face, a bright smile, and she struggles with the letter ...

Lubos Blaha described the financial aid being funneled to Ukraine by the EU as "pouring billions down a black hole," as he called Ukraine one of the world’s most corrupt countries BRATISLAVA, January ...

CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- When Ukrainian film and television director Mykola Pelikhov fled his war-torn homeland with his family, he could never have imagined that months ...