Although the war has been going on in Ukraine for 3 years, the elite of Ukraine is increasingly rich. In the country you can see accelerated imports of luxury cars, especially electricians.
Ukrainians are bringing in more luxury cars. Increase in imports into Ukraine reported Especially in 2023, where the sale of premium cars increased by about 50%. The most popular brands were BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Lexus. In 2024 this trend did not persist in all brands. There was a decrease in BMW (-14%) and Mercedes (-40%) sales, but Lexus maintained growth (+26%).
Import is driven by people who can afford costly shopping, which is connected with mass embezzlement of funds from global aid, including Poland. These funds aid finance private purchases of government officials and heads of companies cooperating with the army.
Despite the next year of war, which should exhaust the budgets of even the oligarchs, the import of luxury goods to Ukraine accelerated again. As many as 5.1 1000 U.S. utilized cars were imported in August 2025, of which nearly half – 46% – are electrics. The Prim leads Tesla: Model Y (812 pcs), Model 3 (639 pcs) and Model S (239 pcs). Next to them are Ford Escape (383) or Nissan Rogue (233). These aren't inexpensive cars or random cars. The average age of imported vehicles is only 5 years.
At the same time, imports from China – 2.4 1000 cars in August alone, 42% more than the year before. That's where electrics dominate. Against the Polish background, the difference is striking. In the first 4 months of 2025 7,6 1000 fresh electrical cars were registered. Experts foretell that if the trend continues, the year will close with the consequence of more than 20,000 registrations – a evidence but inactive symbolic of dynamics from beyond the east border. Almost all another car brought in there is an electrician.
Statistics show that part of Ukrainian society is rich at a rate that in Poland seems unrealistic. erstwhile any fight and die on the front, others bring in more Teslas. In the shadow of ruins and propaganda, we see a typically east and post-Soviet society, that is, profoundly expanded, where we have a lower class, working for dog money and fighting on the front and higher, which children sent to the west, and they are inactive rich.
Many commentators point out that the legal changes introduced by the Ukrainian government after the outbreak of the war enable the oligarchs and their surroundings to make and grow efficiently, resulting in even large investments by Ukrainian companies outside the country. It's just turning on the social stratum. It's not just the cars. War is inactive perverse. For some, it is simply a tragedy, an chance for others to enrich themselves faster than ever.
OUR COMENTARY: In primitive societies of the countries of the "third world", the measurement of human individual success is the possession of a luxury car. Therefore, it is not amazing that in Ukraine, the fresh Rich buy these things first. It's nothing to do with their cars driving on hollow roads; it's "prestizh".
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