#RECONSTRUCTION

The estimated cost to rebuild Ukraine's economy after Russia's invasion has risen to $524 billion, nearly three times its expected 2024 economic output, the World Bank, the United Nations, the European Commission and the Ukrainian government have found.

Ukraine will require an additional 4.5 million workers over the next decade to ensure a successful post-war recovery, the country’s deputy prime minister has said.

The facial likeness of a leading figure of Czech history, the Hussite warrior and general Jan Žižka, has been digitally recreated to mark 600 years since he died.

Over 3,000 Polish companies have so far applied to participate in the post-war reconstruction effort in Ukraine, the government commissioner for the project has said.

During a conference at the Ukrainian Entrepreneurs Association (SUP) office in Warsaw, Kateryna Glazkova, the director of the organization, highlighted the potential for business collaboration between Poland and Ukraine.

Russia’s attempts to colonize Ukraine for over 300 years can be classified as cultural genocide, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said in Berlin during the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2024.

The UN is to open an office in the southeastern Polish city of Rzeszów, paving the way for it to become a hub for Polish involvement in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.

Poland’s Culture Minister, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, has stated that the pace of the reconstruction of Warsaw’s Saxon Palace, which was destroyed by German forces after the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, must be accelerated.

Some 27% of all Polish companies are keen to participate in the reconstruction of Ukraine, according to information released by the Polish Economic Institute (PIE). As of the end of December last year, the total cost of the process estimates at USD 486 billion.

Rafał Brzoska, CEO of InPost, a Polish logistics services company, plans to offer up to EUR 100 million to a potential private Ukraine reconstruction fund and encourages other entrepreneurs to join, the Rzeczpospolita daily reported on Friday.