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Missile alerts cost Ukraine $45m for every hour they halt businesses
Figure cited by minister highlights trade-offs Kyiv faces as it tries to keep normal life moving amid Russian strikes
Missile alerts are costing Ukraine an estimated $45m (£34m) for every hour they bring business to a halt, according to the country’s economy minister, as Kyiv searches for ways to keep the economy running under an intensifying Russian bombardment.
Russia has increasingly targeted the infrastructure underpinning Ukraine’s economy, striking industrial sites, warehouses, logistics hubs and datacentres in what Oleksandr Kravchenko, the minister for economy and the environment, described as an effort to “destroy pretty much the entire economy”. Continue reading...
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Findings of collusion and bad faith are factual ones subject to the clear error standard of review. See Faught v. Am. Home Shield Co., 668 F.3d 1233, 1244 (11th Cir. 2011) (collusion); Trump v. Clin-ton, 161 F.4th 671, 689 (11th Cir. 2025) (bad faith). A finding of fact is not clearly erroneous if it is "plausible in light of the full record— even if another is equally or more so[.]" Cooper v. Harris, 581 U.S. 285, 293 (2017) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).
The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and
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the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings. See generally United States v. Johnson, 319 U.S. 302, 304-05 (1943) (per curiam); Lord v. Veazie, 49 U.S. 251, 254-56 (1850).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifdizszm4juqf4uowjbydlml7jf2uneozuxnkufgwddw7qjby7dmi)
