Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Kryklii says that two annual budgets of the Infrastructure Ministry will not be enough to rebuild infrastructure in frontline areas in Donbas, eastern Ukraine.
"This is a lot of money. It's not even one annual budget or even two annual budgets," he told Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty's Ukrainian service in an interview.
"We need to talk about broader horizons. Because, for example, a bridge in Zaporizhia [costs] about UAH 14 billion – UAH 15 billion (US$578.7 million – US$620 million). But the entire Road Fund has UAH 74 billion (US$3.06 billion)," he said.
According to him, if the government had decided to finance all this from the Road Fund alone, then only one bridge would have cost 20% of it.
In this regard, the Ukrainian side is in talks with international partners on the financing of infrastructure projects, he added.
