Small and micro-sized Ukrainian businesses emerged as some of the country's most resilient traders during both the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's full-scale invasion, while large companies struggled to translate their scale into productivity gains, according to a new study.
Ukraine's small firms emerge as key drivers of trade resilience under war and pandemic, study finds
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