Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko continued to call on European Union countries to help restore certain cities and towns in Donetsk and Luhansk regions on Aug. 26.
“Ukrainian ambassadors will be tackling several highly important matters, namely the mobilization of resources around the world to rebuild the infrastructure of Donbas,” Poroshenko said in Avdiyivka in Donetsk region. He was addressing the heads of diplomatic missions of Ukraine and soldiers of the 92nd brigade.
“We have already several times discussed with the leaders of the European Union a program under which individual countries will take certain towns and villages of Donbas under their patronage,” he said.
Poroshenko’s plan envisions a patronage model, in which each EU state takes responsibility for rebuilding particular town or city in the east of Ukraine. The money that will be raised will help fund, among other projects, the construction of roads in Donbas, he said.
The president has been pushing for this plan with international partners as far back as May 14. Now, he is entrusting heads of diplomatic missions to garner support in Europe.
Poroshenko said that in addition to rebuilding infrustructure, such investment in the war-torn regions by EU states would increase awareness of “the level of problems that we are facing today.”
