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This is about infrastructure and economic development projects, as well as ensuring normal everyday life of local communities.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says Ukraine praises willingness of the European Union to join efforts to restore the liberated territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
"Ukraine welcomes the readiness of the European Union to engage in the reconstruction and development of the liberated from the Russian aggressor territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions," Poroshenko wrote on Facebook.
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"At the EU-Ukraine Summit, we have agreed to launch my initiative on "patronage" by interested EU member states over selected cities and areas of these territories for the implementation of targeted assistance projects on infrastructure restoration, economic development, and ensuring communities’ normal livelihoods," the president wrote.
As UNIAN reported earlier, in 2017 the then-head of the Donetsk civil and military administration, Pavlo Zhebrivsky, said the region required UAH 3 billion to restore residential buildings, schools, kindergartens, and hospitals damaged in Russian militant shellings.