the cost to rebuild the Donbas under Russian control would be $10 billion.

the cost to rebuild the Donbas under Russian control would be $10 billion. Speaking to Radio Donbas.Realii, an RFE/RL unit, he said that this would include donor money. The UN has fell far short in recent years in its campaigns for humanitarian aid to both sides of the line. Increasingly, Western donors funnel money into government controlled Donbas: a €64 million French loan for clean drinking water for Mariupol; a €25 million contract with Germany’s KfW development bank for displaced people housing, and a €100 million World Bank credit to rebuild infrastructure and revive farming in Luhansk oblast.