Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for European Integration Elena Zerkal believes that the Donbass should become an example of modernization of Ukraine.
The first investment forum Re: Think was held in Mariupol in the Donetsk region. Invest in Ukraine at the initiative of President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. According to Prime Minister Alexei Goncharuk, 12 important memorandums of new cooperation were signed during the forum, and 120 ready-made investment projects were presented.
“If we are talking about modern Ukraine, the Donbass should be a model of this modernization. This is not an industrial era, but a post-industrial era,” Zerkal said in a program to Rendezvous with Yanina Sokolova on Channel Five, answering the question, ” place of Donbass in the project Ukraine “.
According to her, the region “requires a completely different approach than it was before the events that took place since the beginning of 2014.”