With armed conflict still simmering in Ukraine’s eastern regions, the government is starting to face another daunting task: repairing a road network which mostly hasn’t been touched since well before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Authorities in Kiev are looking for sources of investment and have invited the World Bank to help draw up plans to improve 170,000 kilometers of roads, of which 90 percent have not been upgraded for over 30 years. Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman’s cabinet wants to make sure foreign companies face no administrative barriers in bidding for reconstruction projects, Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said in an interview.
