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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has launched a government project to compensate citizens whose real estate has been destroyed in the Russian invasion, the president announced in a speech Friday.
Ukraine’s government has already “started accepting applications for compensation for the destroyed real estate of our citizens,” he said, according to an English translation from the presidential office. “The state will return to our people everything that the occupiers destroyed – houses, apartments, etc.”
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“In a few days, 25,491 applications have already been submitted,” the president added. He estimated that the number of residents in these houses and apartments is 63,471 people. “But we know that more needs to be restored. Much more.”
Ukraine’s National Police said seven people are dead and five wounded in a mortar strike east of Kyiv, in Makariv. (National Police of Ukraine)
(National Police of Ukraine)
Zelenskyy urged citizens to spread the news about the program.
“So tell everyone who needs it about such a government program, an important program,” he said. “The opportunity to submit applications will soon be available offline, in the administrative service centers, in the mode usual for many Ukrainians.”
The Russian invasion has displaced almost a quarter of Ukraine’s population in the past 37 days. The UN Refugee Agency estimated that the war has directly impacted over 10 million people, with more than 6.5 million of them displaced within Ukraine and another 3.7 million Ukrainian refugees forced to evacuate the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks via video call to the Doha Forum in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, March 26, 2022. Ukraine’s president made a surprise video appearance Saturday at Qatar’s Doha Forum, calling on the energy-rich nation and others to boost their production to counteract the loss of Russian energy supplies.
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