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Zelensky says Ukraine has not received 'a single cent' towards $17bn recovery plan

25 October 2022 16:42 (UTC +04:00)

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine has not received "a single cent" towards its $17bn fast recovery plan., APA reports citing Sky News.

Addressing a Berlin conference on Ukraine's reconstruction by video link, he also revealed that Russian rockets and Iran-made drones had destroyed more than a third of his country's energy sector.

"Russia destroys everything to make it harder for us to survive this winter so that Ukraine cannot recover from this war for as long as possible so that we cannot integrate the Ukrainian economic potential and the European economic potential for as long as possible."

His remarks came after Kyiv residents spent the night without electricity as Russian strikes continued to hammer the country's power networks.

National leaders, business leaders, and others gathered in the German capital on Tuesday to discuss how to rebuild Ukraine after the invasion.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who co-hosted the meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said: "We have no time to waste. The scale of destruction is staggering."