Ukraine Is Running Short of People

  • Drain on manpower emerging as main concern among businesses
  • Conscription, exodus shrink work force by more than a quarter
Miners at a coal mine in Dnipropetrovsk region.Source: AFP
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Ukraine’s manpower shortage is beginning to bite.

The same drain on personnel that’s weakened Ukrainian forces staving off Russia’s onslaught on the battlefield is also sapping the productivity of the war-battered nation’s factory floors, construction sites, mines and restaurants.