Russia calls Ukraine war \u2018existential\u2019, strikes back<\/a><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\nFourth meeting recovery \t<\/p>\n
It’s the fourth such recovery conference on Ukraine’s recovery, with earlier editions in Lugano, Switzerland in 2022, London in 2023 and Berlin last year. The Berlin conference elaborated four main pillars that are continuing in Rome to focus on business, human capital, local and regional issues, and the necessary reforms for EU admission.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s basically a platform where a lot of businesses, European businesses and Ukrainian businesses, meet up and network, where you can actually see this public-private partnership in action, because obviously public money is not enough to undertake this gigantic effort of restructuring a country,\u201d said Ms. Ambrosetti.<\/p>\n
The World Bank Group, European Commission and the United Nations have estimated that Ukraine’s recovery after more than three years of war will cost $524 billion (506 billion euros) over the next decade.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s partners are focussing on industries and issues \t <\/p>\n
Alexander Temerko, a Ukrainian-British businessman and former Defence Minister under Boris Yeltsin, said the Rome conference was different from its predecessors because it is focussed on specific industries and issues, not just vague talk about the need to rebuild.<\/p>\n
The programme includes practical workshops on such topics as \u201cde-risking\u201d investment, and panel discussions on investing in Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, pharmaceutical and domestic defence industries.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first conference which is considering particularly projects in the energy sector, the mining sector, the metallurgical sector, the infrastructure sector, the transport sector, which need to be restored Ukraine and during the war especially,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat is the special particularity of this conference.\u201d The former U.S. special representative for Ukraine negotiations, Kurt Volker, said Ms. Meloni could make the conference a success if she endorses a coordinating agency to provide follow-up that would give \u201cfocussed political leadership” behind Ukraine’s recovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there is a sustainable ceasefire, Ukraine can be expected to experience double-digit economic growth. And yet a high-level focus on economic development is still lacking,\u201d Mr. Volker wrote for the Centre for European Policy Analysis.<\/p>\n
In addition to Ms. Meloni and Mr. Zelenskyy, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen, as well as economy and or Foreign Ministers from other European countries are coming.<\/p>\n
French President Emmanuel Macron remained in Britain with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, but they and several of the participants of the Rome conference will participate in a videoconference call on Thursday (July 10, 2025) of the \u201ccoalition of the willing,\u201d those countries willing to deploy troops to Ukraine to police any future peace agreement with Russia.<\/p>\n
Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, was in Rome and met with Zelenskyy on Thursday (July 10, 2025).<\/p>\n
Coalition’s success hinges on U.S backup \t <\/p>\n
The success of the coalition’s operation hinges on U.S. backup with airpower or other military assistance, but the Trump administration has made no public commitment to provide support. And even current U.S. military support to Ukraine is in question.<\/p>\n
Mr. Trump said on Monday (July 7, 2025) that the U.S. would have to send more weapons to Ukraine, just days after Washington paused critical weapons deliveries to Kyiv amid uncertainty over the U.S. administration’s commitment to Ukraine’s defence. Mr. Trump’s announcement came after he privately expressed frustration with Pentagon officials for announcing a pause in some deliveries last week \u2014 a move that he felt wasn’t properly coordinated with the White House, according to three people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n
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