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AsslessBaboon OP t1_iwpyjb6 wrote

>Volodymyr Zelenskiy says ‘communist-era rubbish Russian infrastructure’ will be replaced by latest technology and fund will accelerate country’s economy

>Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest will commit $740m to a global Ukraine investment fund for reconstruction, with the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, claiming it could see the country become “the fastest growing economy in Europe, if not the world”. > >The “Ukraine Green Growth Initiative” was hoped to grow to US$100bn, seeding investment in energy and communications infrastructure to transform the nation into a “digital green economy” in the recovery from the Russian war > >“Andrew and I have agreed we will not replace communist-era rubbish Russian infrastructure, instead we will leapfrog to the latest technology,” Zelenskiy said in a statement on Thursday. “We will take advantage of the fact that what the Russians have destroyed can readily be replaced with the latest, most modern green and digital infrastructure.”

Good to see some good news for a change. Hope it gets done asap so that Ukrainians can enjoy the amenities we sometimes take for granted after the war

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urmomaisjabbathehutt t1_iwqtif3 wrote

Hope he doesn't fall on the 70s building trap

A chance to rebuid new is great but not for the sake of new, sometimes we adopt aesthetics and building policies that at the time seem great only to realize years or decades later they were monstrosities

cities need to be designed as liveable spaces for people not as shining glass and concrete traps for for corporations bragging rights

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phixionalbear t1_iwqf4w5 wrote

How much of this disappears into Zelenskiy's offshore accounts?

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phixionalbear t1_iwqoh79 wrote

Downvotes but no replies because you all know he's a crook but your worldview is so simplistic that he has to be a goodie because Putin is a baddie.

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rtb001 t1_iwqyrm4 wrote

I've no clue if he is actually a crook or not, but I'm pretty certain most of that money is going to end up in somebody's offshore accounts rather than spent on actual rebuilding.

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Atypical_Chad t1_iwrvwlg wrote

Nah these guys are trolls his whole election platform has been about ending the rampant corruption in Ukraine and has made some decent strides in that regard. I’m sure they’ll come crawling back to this comment pointing out how Ukraine still has issues, but at least the dude is genuinely trying to make Ukraine better and less corrupt.

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Beavertoni t1_iwugi8m wrote

Right. Because banning your opposition is totally not corruption.

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phixionalbear t1_iwrydeq wrote

https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle

So I'm a troll because I point out that the pandora papers implicate Zelenskiy as a recipient of huge amounts of money stolen from a Ulkrainian bank by his oligarch ally?

Totally normal for comedians to be billionaires of course and to try and hide their wealth in shell companies and then pretend to divest themselves from said shell companies while still receiving payments from them which they don't declare.

"But he said in his campaign that he would crack down on corruption so he can't be corrupt!" Are you a child?

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riddet17 t1_iwsulo8 wrote

Excuse me sir, your tankie is showing. Authoritarianism only works in your picture books.

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phixionalbear t1_iwsvmi8 wrote

Yawn.

Moron throws around internet buzzword that he doesn't understand and isn't relevant to the discussion.

Would be fun to see you try and explain how pointing of Zelenskiy's corruption makes someone a tankie though.

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