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The World Bank has said that an early estimate shows physical damage to Ukraine’s buildings and infrastructure from the conflict had reached roughly 60 billion dollars. World Bank President David Malpass said yesterday that the estimate does not include the growing economic costs of the conflict. The amount will continue to rise as the Russian military operation goes on.
In his virtual address to the conference, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also said that the country needed an estimated seven billion dollars per month to make up for its economic losses now and hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild all this later.
Mr Zelensky asked countries that have imposed sanctions and freezes on Russian assets to use that money to help rebuild Ukraine after the war and to pay for losses suffered by other countries.