Ukraine's Kyiv region still struggles six months after Russian retreat
FirstpostMore than six months after Russian forces retreated from the towns around Kyiv, residents of those communities are still struggling to rebuild their lives. I don’t know anything.” More than six months after Russian forces retreated from the towns around Kyiv, residents of those communities are still struggling to rebuild their lives. This month it plans to send 1,000 crews to do as much work as possible before winter, including fixing 117 high-rise buildings in the Kyiv region, the area’s military administration said. Reconstruction is challenging, especially since 60 per cent of the country’s budget is allocated for the war, Oleksiy Kuleba, head of the Kyiv region military administration, told The Associated Press. In the quest for assistance, Ukraine “still struggles to mobilize donors for rapid rebuilding and necessary security measures,” said Orysia Lutsevych, head of the Ukraine forum at Chatham House, a London-based think tank.