The two days of talks in the Swiss city of Lugano heard that rebuilding the war-ravaged country is estimated to cost at least $750 billion.
SLOVIANSK - Fighting raged on Tuesday in and around Ukraine's eastern Donbas region as Russian troops tried to build on recent battlefield gains, while NATO pressed ahead with Finland and Sweden's momentous membership bids.
At least two people were killed and seven others wounded in strikes that targeted the city's central market, authorities said. Russia also said it was investigating the torture of Russian soldiers held prisoner in Ukraine that were recently released as part of a prisoner swap.In Brussels, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the foreign ministers of Sweden and Finland hailed Tuesday as "historic" when they kicked off accession procedures for the two countries that will expand the military alliance to 32 members.
Ukraine said its forces were still defending "a small part" of Lugansk province, despite Moscow saying its troops were now in full control there after capturing the strategic city of Lysychansk, near the border with Donetsk. Two Ukrainian Red Cross minibuses were heading there to evacuate willing civilians, according to AFP reporters on the ground.
Kherson city, which lies close to Moscow-annexed Crimea, was the first major city to fall to Russian forces in February.
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