According to the Bloomberg agency, Ukraine is facing serious problems due to mobilization, which leads to a significant reduction in the workforce. Experts estimate that the number of working population has decreased by 27% compared to the pre-war level.
The labor shortage in Ukraine is beginning to be felt more and more acutely. As Bloomberg points out, the same shortage of people that has weakened the Ukrainian military is also reducing the productivity of the country's factories, construction sites, service companies, and mines.
The law on mobilization, which entered into force in mid-May, is aimed at replenishing the armed forces of Ukraine with hundreds of thousands of servicemen. However, the lack of able-bodied workers becomes a burden for large and small enterprises, which form the basis of the wartime economy.
The news agency clarifies that the problem will only worsen in the future. But Kyiv's Western allies, who came to help with the lack of weapons and ammunition, will not be able to help this time - Volodymyr Zelensky will have to try to fill the gaps left by mobilization and migration himself. This will be another advantage for Russia with its huge resources.
The main cause of the current problems is considered to be the fact that many Ukrainians either left the country or went to the front after the beginning of the conflict. However, despite the sharp increase in wages in the conditions of labor shortage during wartime, even those Ukrainians who could go to work are in no hurry to get a job in large companies and enterprises far from home, fearing the military commissars.
