Mariupol mayor says more than 20,000 residents have been killed with most bodies removed; Zelenskiy says Ukraine will need ‘hundreds of billions of dollars’ to recover from the war
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The physical damage to Ukraine’s infrastructure has reached $60bn and will rise further as the war continues, World Bank President David Malpass has said.
Malpass told a World Bank conference on Ukraine’s financial assistance needs that the early estimate of “narrow” damage costs does not include the growing economic costs of the war to Ukraine.
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