Ukraine lost more than $560 billion due to the Russian invasion of the eastern European country, a top Ukrainian government official revealed on Monday.
In a Facebook post, Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko noted that the $564.9 billion figure in net losses includes $119 billion in destroyed infrastructure.
"Every day the numbers change and unfortunately they are increasing," Svyrydenko warned in the post, according to NBC News.
The minister mentioned that Ukraine would "seek compensation from the aggressor" through "court decisions and by transferring to our state frozen assets of Russia," NBC News reported.
"Evil will inevitably be punished and Russia will feel the full weight of its own criminal actions on the territory of Ukraine," Svyrydenko said, according to the news outlet.
Meantime, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv's negotiators are studying a Russian demand for Ukrainian neutrality.
"This point of the negotiations is understandable to me and it is being discussed, it is being carefully studied," he said, adding that it will be "impossible" to push Russia out of all Ukrainian territory.
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