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Ukrainian prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, told an international conference that rebuilding his war-ravaged country would cost around $750bn (£620bn).
Speaking at the opening of the Ukraine recovery conference in Switzerland, Shmyhal said the confiscated assets of Russia and Russian oligarchs should be used to help Ukraine put itself back together.
We believe that the key source of recovery should be the confiscated assets of Russia and Russian oligarchs.
The Russian authorities unleashed this bloody war, they caused this massive destruction, and they should be held accountable for it.”