by Empty supermarket shelves in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on July 2 Keystone / Orlando Barria Switzerland will double its aid to Ukraine to CHF100 million (4 million) by the end of 2023, Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis announced at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in the Swiss city of Lugano. He also freed up CHF15 million to support the country’s digital economy. “Ukraine has to lead [its reconstruction] but we have to support it,” said Cassis, who also holds the rotating Swiss presidency this year. In addition to its bilateral assistance, Switzerland will continue to support the initiatives of international organisations for Ukraine. Multilateral efforts are “an antidote to the use of force”, he said on Tuesday, the final day of the conference. Switzerland also remains
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Empty supermarket shelves in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on July 2 Keystone / Orlando Barria
Switzerland will double its aid to Ukraine to CHF100 million ($104 million) by the end of 2023, Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis announced at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in the Swiss city of Lugano.
He also freed up CHF15 million to support the country’s digital economy. “Ukraine has to lead [its reconstruction] but we have to support it,” said Cassis, who also holds the rotating Swiss presidency this year.
In addition to its bilateral assistance, Switzerland will continue to support the initiatives of international organisations for Ukraine. Multilateral efforts are “an antidote to the use of force”, he said on Tuesday, the final day of the conference.
Switzerland also remains available to provide its good offices, he said. The Russian response to the possible representation of Russian interests in Ukraine or Ukrainian interests in Russia is still pending. Cassis said Switzerland was ready to host talks “to put an end to the war when the time comes”.
Call on oligarchs to pay
For his part, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, speaking in Lugano, repeated that his country was the victim of “genocide”. He again thanked the international community for its support.
He said the cost of rebuilding Ukraine following Russia’s invasion could reach $750 billion (CHF720 billion) and rich Russians should help pay the bill.
“We believe that the key source of recovery should be the confiscated assets of Russia and Russian oligarchs,” he said, citing estimates that frozen Russian assets were worth $300-$500 billion.
“The Russian authorities unleashed this bloody war. They caused this massive destruction and they should be held accountable for it.”
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Other airlines in the Lufthansa Group also announced plans to halt flights to the country. © Keystone / Christian Beutler
Amid further escalations of the crisis in Ukraine, Swiss International Airlines has decided to temporarily suspend flights to Ukraine from next week. This affects flight connections in Kyiv.
This content was published on February 19, 2022 – 17:22
February 19, 2022 – 17:22
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All flights will be cancelled from Monday, February 21 until February 28, 2022, a SWISS spokesperson told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Saturday in response to a request. Flights on Sunday, February 20, would take place as planned to provide booked passengers a travel option between Kyiv and Zurich.“The safety of passengers and crew members is the top priority at all times,”
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