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Ukraine needs rapid assistance totalling $1 billion to return its electricity grid and centralised heating system to normal operation, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Monday.

Shmyhal, in an address to a meeting of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, said Russian air attacks in recent weeks had damaged half the country’s key infrastructure facilities.“But the main priority now is the stage of survival — quickly restоring critical infrastructure and the energy sector to get through the winter,” Shmyhal told the meeting, according to media reports and his own Telegram channel.

Russia has launched missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities and other sites nearly each week since October. Energy experts have been working to restore the grid in the Black Sea city of Odesa after weekend strikes on two facilities left 1.5 million customers without power and put its port temporarily out of action.

In his address to the OECD, Shmyhal quoted World Bank figures as saying Ukraine needed $349 billion to proceed with restoration work as of last June.

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That is not going to happen. It seems more & more that this train wreck of a war & about wasting money, bleeding out with 3rd parties tapping the money through money laundering schemes Demonstration of greed cynically & openly feeding off totalitarian expansion Curse money

The Nazis in Ukraine have been given over 30 billion dollars so far & are still to get more.😎😎 This is the biggest global money laundering event the world is witnessing

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