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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rob Davies

Zelenskiy’s economic guru: ‘Germany can survive without Russian oil: I wouldn’t want my country facing the shame’

Protesters in Berlin demand an immediate end to German imports of Russian gas and oil
Protesters in Berlin demand an immediate end to German imports of Russian gas and oil over its invasion of Ukraine. Photograph: Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images

Before Russia’s tanks, daubed with their infamous Z, rolled into Ukraine, Oleg Ustenko’s advice to president Volodymyr Zelenskiy had focused on pension reform, privatisation and coaxing economic migrants to return.

Nearly 60 days later, the pair are instead striving to hold together an economy that, even if Vladimir Putin’s brutal bombardment were to end tomorrow, would be left in tatters.

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