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Power cuts due to massive Russian strikes on Kyiv this week have hit the Ukrainian economy hard, but business owners are not giving up even as a brutal winter sets in, said FRANCE 24’s correspondent in the Ukrainian capital. Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko has called for more Western support to help increasing reconstruction costs following the latest Russian escalation. Follow our coverage of the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).
7:39am: Power cuts cause ‘huge headaches’ for business owners
Reporting from Kyiv, FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg says this week’s massive Russian strikes in western Ukraine have crippled the country’s economy. But business leaders are determined to wage an economic resistance.
7:12am: More than 15,000 missing due to the war in Ukraine, says intergovernmental organisation
More than 15,000 people have gone missing during the war in Ukraine, an official in the Kyiv office of the Hague-based International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) said.
The ICMP’s programme director for Europe, Matthew Holliday, said it was unclear how many people had been forcibly transferred, were being held in detention in Russia, were alive and separated from family members, or had died and been buried in makeshift graves.
6:01am: Ukraine finance minister says reconstruction costs rising
Ukraine’s Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko has said more Western support is needed to help it meet its…
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