, Columnist
What Will Postwar Ukraine Look Like? Planning Starts Before Peace
Reconstruction will be slow, expensive and fraught with risks. But the democratic world can’t wait for peace to begin the process.
A soldier of the Kraken Ukrainian special forces unit observes the area at a destroyed bridge north of Kharkiv.
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When war is raging in Ukraine, talk of reconstruction may seem premature. How can the country rebuild anything given the constant threat of attack?
And yet, it’s right that governments and multilateral fora, along with Ukraine itself, are focusing on rebuilding.