The Kyiv Regional Council allocated UAH 145 million from the reserve fund of the regional budget to overcome the consequences of the war and restore the region, the head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, Oleksiy Kuleba, said in a video message on Friday.
“These funds will be used for road maintenance, as well as relevant infrastructure, territorial defense, liquidation of the consequences of hostilities and preparation for the heating season,” Kuleba emphasized.
According to him, out of 145 million hryvnias, 100 million hryvnias have been allocated for the maintenance and development of highways, as well as the corresponding infrastructure.
Kuleba noted that for preparation for the heating season, Borodyansk will receive UAH 6.7 million, Vasylkivsk will receive about UAH 19.7 million, Dymersk will receive about UAH 12.9 million.
In addition, for the liquidation of the consequences of hostilities and the restoration of the infrastructure of settlements, UAH 0.6 million was allocated to the Borodyansk community, over UAH 2.3 million to the Dymersk community, and UAH 0.255 million to the Poliska territorial community
Another 2 million hryvnias will also be directed to the work of territorial defense and other measures related to the military aggression of the Russian Federation.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a Memorandum on Turkey’s participation in the restoration of Ukraine’s infrastructure. In addition, Turkish campaigns will also provide consulting and technical assistance, said Deputy Head of the Office of the President (OP) Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
“In Lvov, during a meeting between President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a Memorandum was signed on Turkey’s participation in restoring Ukraine’s infrastructure,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to him, Turkish state and business structures will develop specific restoration projects, as well as provide consulting and technical assistance.
“The restoration of the bridge in the village of Romanovka, Kyiv region, is being considered as the first project,” Tymoshenko stressed.
“We thank our partners for supporting the Fast Recovery plan and our initiatives,” the deputy head of the President’s Office wrote.
Switzerland will hold an international conference on the restoration of Ukraine on July 4-5, the EFE news agency reported on Monday.
The conference, which will be held in Lugano, will be organized by the Swiss government together with Ukrainian representatives. It is expected that the discussion of the restoration of Ukraine will be held in four main directions: social, economic, environmental and infrastructural.
It is expected that the meeting will be attended by delegations from European countries, as well as from Canada and the USA. Representatives of international organizations, including the World Bank, are expected to attend the event.
In parallel with the conference, a cultural program is planned: concerts of classical and jazz music with musicians and artists from Ukraine.
Kyiv is allocating funds and is starting to reconstruct and overhaul residential buildings and premises of the social infrastructure of the capital, damaged by the shelling of Russian barbarians. This was announced by the mayor of the capital Vitali Klitschko in the Telegram channel on Monday.
“The capital allocates about UAH 600 million from the budget. The government promised to provide another UAH 200 million. We very much count on it. After all, almost 390 buildings need to be restored in the capital. Of these, more than 220 are residential buildings. Others are social infrastructure facilities (medical institutions, kindergartens, schools, social security institutions, administrative buildings),” Klitschko wrote.
The Austrian company iC consulenten ZT GmbH will develop a master plan for the restoration of Trostyanets (Sumy region), Mayor Yuriy Bova said.
“We agreed with iC consulenten ZT GmbH to work together on the concept of restoring the future of Trostyanets – a safe, environmentally friendly, comfortable city,” the mayor said on Facebook after a meeting with representatives of the company in Vienna.
According to him, the company will do the work for free. The development will take three to four months.
iC consulenten is an engineering and consulting company that is part of the Austrian iC group. The company is represented in more than 100 countries. Started working in Ukraine in 2013. Among the projects of iC consulenten in Ukraine are the technical supervision of the construction of the Zaporozhye bridge, the implementation of traffic management systems in Lviv, technical support for the project of energy modernization of municipal buildings, etc.
Denmark will soon provide practical reconstruction assistance to Ukraine, Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said.
“We will partner and invest in the reconstruction of Ukraine. And I reaffirmed Denmark’s commitment to the restoration of Mykolaiv. We want to move on to more detailed information from Ukrainian partners. But as we speak, we have economic assistance, as well as practical assistance to Ukraine which is already on its way: it will help rebuild your country. Because we must do everything possible to show that such destruction should not happen and that we will overcome it as soon as possible,” Kofod said at a press conference with the Foreign Minister Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba in Kyiv on Monday.
