UKRAINIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY SOLDIERS ON DESPITE RUSSIAN ATTACK
June 26th, 2023
Ukraine’s automotive assembly, parts and sales sectors are continuing to operate, despite the ongoing Russian invasion, which as of June 19 killed 9,083 civilians (UN figures) and crippled Ukrainian manufacturing.
The country was once an automotive powerhouse within the Soviet Union, producing large volumes of ZAZ and LAZ vehicles. After independence, production started falling, plummeting by 98% between 2008 and 2018 according to the Association of Automobile Manufacturers of Ukraine (Ukravtoprom) (1). However, Ukraine maintained an automotive production ...
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