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Remarks by Ukraine PM come as report puts reconstruction cost at nearly $500bn since start of conflict
Ukraine has called for frozen Russian assets to be used to rebuild the country’s war-ravaged economy after a report showed the cost of reconstruction spiralling to almost $500bn since the invasion two years ago.
In their third assessment of the likely price tag for recovery and reconstruction, the World Bank, Ukraine’s government, the European Commission and the United Nations said the war had caused the economy to shrink by more than 25% and had been a “dramatic setback” to Ukraine’s development.
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