WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky on Wednesday called on international donors to boost financial support, saying his country needed funds to rebuild schools and homes destroyed by months of Russian bombardment.
Speaking by videoconference to finance ministers at a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington, the head of state said Ukraine needed about $55 billion, of which $38 billion to cover the budget deficit it anticipates for next year.
Another seventeen billion dollars must, according to him, be devoted to the reconstruction of the country’s infrastructure.
“The sooner Ukraine receives this aid, the sooner we will be able to end the Russian war,” he said.
(Andrea Shalal and David Lawder,; French version Nicolas Delame)
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