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Zelensky says Donbas reconstruction will cost over 10 billion euro

Published July 3, 2019 at 9:42 am

Civilians repair the roof of a house damaged by shelling in the city of Avdiyivka in Donetsk Oblast on Feb. 5. Avdiyivka, located close to Russian-occupied Donetsk, has become an epicenter of hostilities in 2017. (Volodymyr Petrov)

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited foreign investors to a forum on Donbas restoration, which will take place in Mariupol, the Donetsk region, in fall.

“According to tentative estimates, Donbas restoration will cost over EUR 10 billion. We will hold a related forum in Mariupol in fall, and foreign investors who wish to finance infrastructural and humanitarian projects in Donbas are invited,” Zelensky said at the Ukraine Reform Conference in Toronto on July 2.