CNS: 3000 enterprises stopped working in occupied Donbas. Only 30% of residents have jobs

More than 3,000 enterprises have completely stopped working in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, leaving only about 30% of the local population with jobs. About this reports Center for National Resistance, citing data from the GUR.

According to the GUR, most of the employed work temporarily, for low pay or in structures controlled by the Russian occupiers.

Sources from the National Resistance Center note that some people are being forced to work at so-called "military reconstruction" facilities – in utilities, on the construction of defense structures, or in repair units subordinated to the Russian military.

Payment for such work is often delayed or given in the form of food packages.

The occupation administrations are massively closing down local mines and factories that were once the backbone of the region's economy.

Production equipment is being exported to Russia or transferred to Russian companies, and some employees are being formally "laid off" to hide the real unemployment rate.

According to intelligence estimates, the economy of the occupied region is virtually destroyed: industry is not recovering, there is no investment, and all resources are being directed to Russia's military needs.

The unemployment rate in the region is already three times higher than in the early 1990s, and the standard of living of local residents remains catastrophically low.

• On September 1, the head of the State Agency for Water Resources, Ihor Hopchak, said that the water crisis in the occupied Donbas may lead to irreversible changes in the region's ecosystems and make some territories uninhabitable even after the war is over.