After the first weeks of the bombing, NATO shifted to economic targets. The humanitarian assistance that the Red Cross can get into Serbia is minuscule compared to the need. Economic reconstruction is required. After some years of economic sanctions, the economy was already in a parlous state. Now it is kaput.
Many places have no electricity and no water.
Many roads are affected. They face a massive rebuilding task and in the meantime they face high levels of unemployment, which will make it difficult for people to cope. Carlton left little doubt that the NATO bombing of refineries, factories and other workplaces was calculated. Several missiles had struck it. The exterior had been left intact but inside was only a blackened shell.