Minister for the Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Chernyshev has said that about 6,800 residential buildings have already been destroyed or damaged in the war in Ukraine.

"In Ukraine, about 6,800 residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged in the Russian-Ukrainian war… Today, to restore the basic infrastructure and basic things that we must do immediately after the end of the war, we need tens of billions of dollars for the first period," Chernyshev was quoted as saying by the ministry's press service.

The minister believes that funds for the development and restoration of cities and agglomerations will need to be measured in hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars.