Belarus’ State Property Committee has calculated the damage inflicted on the country during World War Two.
“The final damage figures as of December 29, 2025 amount to $1.8232 trillion,” the State Property Committee said.
The committee heads an inter-agency group responsible for calculating the damage caused by the Nazis on the territory of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. The group was created at the instruction of the Prosecutor General’s Office as part of the investigation into the criminal case on genocide.
According to the committee, the calculation includes three components:
- property damage — destruction and looting of property, cultural assets and natural resources between 1941 and 1944;
- indirect damage — lost profits and reduced national income during the war and post-war years;
- post-war damage — the cost of demining, eliminating the consequences of hostilities and searching for and reburying remains.
Interestingly, the figure announced today by the State Property Committee is lower than the amount previously cited by representatives of the Prosecutor General’s Office. In March last year, Deputy Prosecutor General Aliaksei Stuk said the damage amounted to 43,500 tonnes of gold, or $2.35 trillion. Before that, then Prosecutor General Andrei Shved had also spoken of 43,500 tonnes of gold, or $2.3 trillion.
