Ukraine's richest man has pledged to help rebuild the besieged city of Mariupol, a place close to his heart where he owns two vast steelworks that he says will once again compete globally.
Rinat Akhmetov has seen his business empire shattered by eight years of fighting in Ukraine's east but remains defiant, sure that what he calls"our brave soldiers" will defend the Sea of Azov city reduced to a wasteland by seven weeks of bombardment.
We will rebuild the entire Ukraine," he said, adding that he returned to the country on February 23 and had been there ever since.'A Marshall Plan for Ukraine'Akhmetov did not say where exactly he was, but that he had been in Mariupol on February 16, the day some western intelligence services had expected the invasion to begin."I talked to people in the streets, I met with workers...," he said.
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