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Reconstruction of Ukraine, Zelensky: Must go beyond restoring walls

Reconstruction of Ukraine, Zelensky: Must go beyond restoring walls

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Monday as a "very important day" as a conference dedicated to his country's recovery began in Lugano, Switzerland.

But he said that the reconstruction of Ukraine must go beyond "restoring the walls that we had that were destroyed by the attacks. Ukraine must become the freest, most modern and safest country in Europe, in every sense of the word, in particular, in terms of our environment. I'm sure we will," he said.

Zelensky warned that recovery efforts should not only focus on the next few years, but also on the present.

"Ukrainian forces liberated more than a thousand settlements from the invaders and new ones are added every week. Now, for example, in the south of our country. All of them suffered large-scale destruction.

And this also means the need for colossal funds for the restoration of infrastructure, for the restoration of medicine and social services, for the restoration of normal economic life. In the liberated areas alone, there are tens of thousands of destroyed houses," he said, adding that "a significant part of the economy has been destroyed."

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