Rebuilding without waiting for victory - the Ministry of Infrastructure is preparing to spend $148 billion
Kyiv • UNN
The Ministry of Infrastructure is preparing to spend $148 billion to rebuild Ukraine without waiting for a victory.
Today the conference "Rebuilding Ukraine: Why We Shouldn't Put It Off Until We Win" is taking place. The event is organized by the Ministry of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development and the Ukrainska Pravda publication.
The organizers estimate Ukraine's reconstruction and recovery needs at $148 billion. "We need to rebuild here and now, all the time," the event's announcement reads.
The conference will open with a conversation between Sevgil Musayeva and Oleksandr Kubrakov. Minister of Infrastructure and Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction.
The main speakers of the conference are the heads of the Ministry of Infrastructure, the State Agency for Infrastructure Restoration and Development (headed by Mustafa Nayem), journalists of Ukrainska Pravda, and representatives of the conference sponsors. The conference has an alcohol sponsor.
After April 11, 2024, when the Russians destroyed the Trypillia TPP in Kyiv region with a missile strike, social media criticized Oleksandr Kubrakov and Mustafa Nayem for spending 45.7 billion UAH on physical protection of power plants and substations in 2023. In particular, UAH 36 billion was allocated to protect Ukrenergo, and an additional UAH 9.7 billion was spent on protecting energy infrastructure.
In particular, at the Dialogues on Ukraine's Recovery event, Mustafa Nayyem , head of the Infrastructure Agency, spoke about the historic defense project: "There will be no analogues in the world of such structures that we are building in Ukraine. I'm talking about substations that will be protected from missile attacks.
However, after several recent attacks, 100% of Centrenergo's generation and 80% of DTEK's generation were destroyed. Russian attacks on power substations are ongoing in various regions of Ukraine.
