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Ukraine’s finance minister: Why investors can’t give up on us now

Despite unprecedented action to protect investors, the economic war is far from over

Friday 23 February 2024 at 00:01

Ukrainian finance minister Sergii Marchenko at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London last June
Ukrainian finance minister Sergii Marchenko at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London last June Photo: Hannah McKay/Getty Images

Sergii Marchenko is Ukraine’s minister of finance

In February 2022, the Ukrainian government faced challenges on a previously unseen scale. Sea ports were blocked, there were millions of refugees, the heavy industrial sector was demolished and 90% of enterprises suspended their operations.