Volodymyr Zelensky has urged the international community to help fund Ukraine’s reconstruction after the war and use frozen Russian assets to compensate victims.
Borrowing words used to launch the reconstruction of Europe after the second world war under the Marshall Plan, Ukraine’s president said that his proposal to help cover a rebuild that looks set to cost more than $500bn was “designed to counter hunger, poverty, despair and chaos”.
Speaking by video link to a packed main conference hall at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Zelensky said: “I invite you to take part in this reconstruction. The work to be done is colossal. There are more than [$500bn] in losses. Tens of thousands of buildings have been destroyed.”