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This is the indicator for Planner Money, I'm Adrian Ma, here with Deerian Woods and

Will & Wong.

Now today marks the one year anniversary of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine.

It's a milestone for a war that has raged longer than many analysts anticipated.

And today the US and UK announced further sanctions on Russia.

On a special edition of Indicators of the Week, we bring you three economic numbers that

help shed light on where things stand today.

So for Indicators of the Week with the one year anniversary of Russia's full scale invasion

of Ukraine, we have three metrics that show where things stand.

First of all, Adrian Ma.

So my indicator is 2.1%.

That is how much Russia's economy shrank last year, in part because of economic sanctions

imposed by the US and other allied countries.

And that 2.1% decrease is a lot less than what forecasters and President Biden were predicting

about a year ago when the sanctions were put in place.

This is going to impose severe cost on the Russian economy, both immediately and over time.

We have purposely designed these sanctions to maximize the long-term impact on Russia

and to minimize the impact in the United States and our allies.

And specifically the goal with the sanctions was to weaken Russia's ability to carry out

a war, right?

To cripple its financial system, make it harder for Russia to export stuff to the world,

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