@thor You're absolutely right! The economy started to decline long time ago, that is why the first part of this war happened in 2014 I think. It was bad enough, but it stopped then, the economy started to recover.
No one expected COVID though. It was a terrible blow so they wanted the same patriotic rise as in 2014, but Ukrainians became stronger as a nation and stood up for themselves. And now Putin can't just back out, he will look weak, so this meaningless massacre goes on 😭