Local business impacted by Russian attack on Ukraine
One local business is worried for employees they have located in Ukraine. Jim Berlin, CEO of Erie-based company, Logistics Plus, employs about 50 people in Ukraine. Most of them are under the age of 35.
For a while many thought the invasion wouldn't happen, and then they thought it would happen mostly in the eastern part of the country.
But now with Kiev being bombarded, the feeling has changed. Logistics Plus employees could hear explosions from their offices since Wednesday night.
Berlin tells us they've offered to get Ukrainian employees out of the country and help them flee to nearby Germany, Poland, or even help them get to the United States.
But like many others, it's not possible for them to leave so much behind.
On the business side of things, Russian cyber-attacks are becoming more and more common, especially for people who do business in Ukraine.
Berlin says if those aggressive online threats continue, it will further impact the American supply chain.
“Those cyberattacks have happened in the transportation industry before, and even recently. This week, there’s been a few of them,” said Berlin. “They’re malicious, and they’re trying to shut down your IT systems for shipping lines. It just makes things harder. We’ll have to go back to manual stuff.”