Italy will continue to raise funds to rebuild the city of Bucha in the Kiev region, which has suffered from the Russian occupiers.

According to Censor.NET, with reference to Interfax-Ukraine, this was announced by the mayor of Bergamo (Italy) Giorgio Gori during a meeting with the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Serhiy Marchenko and the managing director of the international banking group Rothschild in the CIS Giovanni Salvetti.

According to the Ministry of Finance in a release on the website on Wednesday following the meeting, in April 2022, the Italian humanitarian organization Cesvi, headquartered in Bergamo, allocated the first EUR500 million for the reconstruction of Bucha, and Gori confirmed its readiness to raise funds in the future.

The mayor of the Italian city said that the amount of financial support for the restoration of communal infrastructure and social facilities in Bucha will be increased through charitable contributions from private and public donors, including the municipality of Bergamo.

“Today, the amount of infrastructure damage reaches $ 104 billion, but the war is not over. Now and after the victory we have a difficult path to restore Ukraine,” said, in turn, the Minister of Finance of Ukraine, quoted by the press service of the agency.

The priority areas of Bucha’s reconstruction are the restoration of destroyed infrastructure, housing, re-equipment of special equipment parks, including ambulances, fire engines and public transport, the ministry added.