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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic Editor

Ukraine lacks capacity to process huge sums in aid, official admits

Mustafa Nayyem, head of the Ukraine State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development.
Mustafa Nayyem: ‘Now we are expecting much more, and it will be very difficult for the Ukrainian construction industry, government institutions and private institutions to deliver.’ Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

Ukraine will struggle to absorb the expected billions of western private and public sector aid for its recovery not due to corruption, but a simple lack of capacity to process and invest such huge sums, a senior Ukraine official has said on the eve of the UK-sponsored Ukraine recovery conference in London.

“It is about the capacity to work with this amount of money,” said Mustafa Nayyem, the head of the Ukraine State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development.

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