Almost $1 billion investment is going this year into the government-controlled portions of Donetsk and Luhansk,

Almost $1 billion investment is going this year into the government-controlled portions of Donetsk and Luhansk, Oleksii Reznikov, deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, writes in an Atlantic Council Ukraine blog. In addition to government budget money, he writes “credit and donor funds have allowed us to create a package of infrastructure projects in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts worth over $900 million, including highway and railway construction, water facilities modernization, improvements in energy infrastructure, agricultural infrastructure upgrades, and much more.” Investments are coming from the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, Naftogaz, and the governments of Canada, France, Germany, and Sweden.