Each Third Ukrainian Struggles Paycheck to Paycheck, while 60% of Monthly Income Is Spent on Food

Average welfare level in Ukraine has decreased significantly since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion. According to recent survey results, every third Ukrainian is struggling paycheck to paycheck, grc.ua reports.

Even middle-class people have faced “sudden poverty” due to lost job and salary reduction.

Every fourth Ukrainian is currently spending up to 60% of monthly income to buy food. Around 15% of respondents reported spending on food over 60% of their monthly income.

Around 36% respondents report consistently struggling paycheck to paycheck. Another 30% survey participants responded that from time to time they face difficulties, where their monthly salary is not enough to survive to the next paycheck. 

According to survey results, there are two cost items most Ukrainians are spending their wages on. These are food and utilities. Many respondents complain that all their monthly income is spent on these two items only.

Read also:

• 5-Year-Old Boy Was Left an Orphan: Russian Missile Killed the Okhmatdyt Doctor Driving to Work in Kyiv

• Russia Deploys Iranian Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drones in Belarus

• Over One Hundred People Injured: Police Reported Number of Casualties in Russian Massive Missile Strike against Ukraine 

• Zelenskyi’s Representative Urged to Recognize Genocide: Russia Commits Summary executions, Rapes and Issues Statements about “Dismantling of Ukraine” 

• "As If Nothing Happened": Zelenskyi Chastened Countries that Continue to Talk with Putin