As fighting continues in Ukraine, more and more refugees are returning to their homes. According to the European Commission, the number of Ukrainians entering European Union countries has returned to pre-Russian levels.
More people will come and go before the new school year starts, EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said Monday at a meeting of EU interior ministers in Prague. “As far as the flow of refugees is concerned, the situation is now stable.”
At present, almost as many people return to the EU as to Ukraine. Frontex border guards said in late June that more than six million Ukrainians had fled to the EU since the war in Ukraine and about 3.1 million had returned to their home countries.
Kiev estimates reconstruction costs at 720 billion euros
Meanwhile, an international process to rebuild Ukraine was launched last week in Lugano, Switzerland. At the conference, the dimensions of destruction in war-torn Ukraine became clear to her again, German Development Minister Svenja Schulze said: “This is not a project for a year or two.”
Die Ukrainian The government estimates the need for this at a minimum of 720 billion euros. The 300 to 500 billion dollars (between 297 and 495 billion euros) in Russian assets that have been frozen worldwide should be used for that purpose, Schmyhal demanded: “Russia and other potential aggressors should be aware that they have to pay for unfounded and unjustified attacks .
Source: Krone
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