The war rages on but Ukraine’s recovery cannot wait

7 Jun 2024 12:23 PM

EXPERT COMMENT

While all eyes are on the battlefield, without recovery finance and key domestic reforms, Ukrainian resilience is at risk.

During more than two years of full-scale war against Ukraine, Russia has launched 8,000 missiles and 4,630 drones, targeting densely populated cities, energy-generating facilities, large shopping centres, schools, hospitals, railway stations and high-rise buildings. 

Failing to make significant progress on land, Putin’s strategy is to make Ukraine uninhabitable by causing a humanitarian disaster, depriving its enterprises of energy supply and thereby push Kyiv’s leadership to accept a false peace deal.  

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