Germany drums up business support to rebuild post-war Ukraine

“The best kind of reconstruction is the one that doesn’t have to happen at all,” Scholz said.

Kyiv hopes the recovery conference will cement its credentials as a future member of the European Union that is worthy of huge injections of reconstruction financing even as Russian forces continue to make slow advances in Ukraine’s east.

It comes days before Switzerland hosts an international conference to find a path to peace in Ukraine but which has been shunned by China and dismissed as a waste of time by Russia, which was not invited to…