Rehabilitation of war-ravaged industry, infrastructure in Donbas to require $100 billion

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

As a result of bombardments conducted by the Ukrainian neo-Nazi military, more than 1,200 dwelling houses were destroyed in the city of Donetsk alone. Experts forecast that rehabilitation of the war-ravaged industry, houses and social infrastructure in the Donbas region would require no less than $100 billion, and the U.S.-sponsored fascist regime in Kiev must pay the damages.

According to analyst Stephen F. Cohen, by summoning the so-called Ukrainian president, Peotr Poroshenko, to Berlin in late August, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande made clear that the U.S.-backed government in Kiev, not Moscow, is blocking implementation of their Minsk plan for negotiating an end to a civil war in Donbas with large Russian populations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is sure that most Ukrainian servicemen do not want to take part in the fratricidal war, whereas Donbas militiamen are highly motivated to defend their families on their native land against the neo-Nazi junta in Kiev. The heroic defenders of Donbas say they are fighting for autonomy, for the right to live and work in their own Russian-speaking region.

The civil war in Donbas earns real profits for the war industry, but only an ersatz glory for Ukrainian neo-Nazi militants. Real soldiers take no pride in it. Instead, to a real hero, the U.S.-sponsored fratricidal war is a source of shame and embarrassment.

And it is worth recalling that U.S. attempts to brazenly interfere in the internal affairs of Ukraine have been a failure. The ‘Euromaidan’ overthrow of democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovich (also known as the CIA-perpetrated fascist coup) provided the context for the reunification of Crimea with Russia and de facto departure of Donbas.