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The Ukrainian government has improved a unified digital system for the restoration of the state. This will speed up the process and ensure its transparency. The approach to the settlements affected by the aggression of the Russian Federation will be completely new, and among the priorities are the restoration of energy, humanitarian demining, the restoration of housing, critical and social infrastructure, as well as the development of the private sector. Details – in the material FREEDOM.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmygal at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers named three goals of this pilot project. Thus, its action will be extended not only to infrastructure, but also to construction and real estate. These decisions will contribute to the speedy restoration of Ukraine.
“The project has three goals. The first is to speed up recovery, to strengthen its inclusiveness. The second is to ensure the transparency of processes and increase the trust of citizens and foreign partners. The third is to more effectively attract resources for restoration,” the prime minister said.
He also clarified that state registrars and entrepreneurs are exempt from fees for obtaining extracts from the State Register.
“The principle of a “single window” will be implemented to obtain the right to build and state registration of ownership of the constructed facility,” Shmyhal said.
In the plan for the rapid recovery of Ukraine for 2023, presented by the Cabinet of Ministers, we are talking about hundreds of different projects, hundreds of cities and towns, where recovery will take place simultaneously.
In particular, the government has identified six settlements where recovery will take place according to completely new principles:
- Borodyanka and Moshchun in the Kyiv region;
- Trostyanets in Sumy;
- Posad-Pokrovskoe in the Kherson region,
- Tsirkuny in Kharkiv;
- Berry – Chernihiv region.
All of them will be restored comprehensively. This means that not individual buildings and structures will be rebuilt, but everything – with a systematic approach, a new layout and a complete transformation of these settlements.
In 2023, the Ukrainian government also plans to implement $14 billion in recovery projects. Five priorities have been identified:
- energy recovery;
- humanitarian demining;
- housing restoration;
- critical, social infrastructure;
- private sector development.
According to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, the state faces two main tasks: to win and start restoration now, without waiting for the end of the war.
“The restoration of Ukraine is the most ambitious project of the 21st century, requiring huge resources. But at the same time, recovery opens up countless opportunities and perspectives. Especially for a business that will be the engine of change. The Ukrainian and European economies are gradually becoming one. Each common successful investment project brings us closer to the goal,” said the head of the Ukrainian government.
Not only foreign investments and financial injections, but also the confiscated financial resources of the aggressor country and its oligarchs will help to restore Ukraine faster.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland authorized the first transfer of confiscated Russian assets for use in Ukraine.
We are talking about the funds of the Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, who is involved in the financing of separatist sentiments in Ukrainian Crimea. Now more than $5 million from his accounts will be sent to Ukraine.
And this is just the beginning. The European Commission has confirmed that it has developed legally acceptable options for using Russian assets, both private and public, to rebuild Ukraine. This was announced by the representative of the European Commission Christian Wiegand.
According to him, Russian assets worth about 24 billion euros have been frozen in the EU.
“We have made a proposal to criminalize the violation of EU restrictive measures, and relevant discussions with other EU institutions have already made significant progress. This will allow, in case of sanctions evasion, to confiscate these assets, which will allow this to be done in accordance with the law, in this case, criminal law,” said Christian Wiegand.
The European Union is firmly committed to its commitment to help Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen emphasizes in her statements.
In Kyiv, meanwhile, work continues on programs for the restoration of Ukraine after the war. Already in June, they plan to present them to partners at a conference on the restoration of Ukraine in London, as previously announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“We are working on all aspects of recovery, and each of them is in a new security format. Economy and industry, defense industry, energy, infrastructure, educational industry, social sphere, medicine, in particular the rehabilitation component… Everything that needs to be built, what the world is ready to invest in, what will give Ukraine and Ukrainians reliable protection and confidence development of our social capital,” he said.
The head of state also expressed confidence that the restoration project would give a powerful impetus to the development of not only Ukraine.
