European leaders are urging private business and equity funds to not be afraid to invest in rebuilding Ukraine now even as Russia accelerates its war.

At the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), part of the World Bank Group, announced new guarantees worth €185 million for two projects. — Ukrinform.

Participants in a Rome conference on the economic recovery of Ukraine have pledged over 10 billion euros ($11.7 billion) to help the war-torn country, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Thursday.

Fourth conference on Ukraine reconstruction comes as Russia escalates attacks on country, amid doubts over US support.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome on Friday.

It was attended by political leaders including the war-torn nation's President Volodymyr Zelensky. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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ROME (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he had held a "substantive" conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump's Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, in Rome shortly after Trump pledged to send more defensive weapons to Kyiv.

Countries prepared to provide troops for a future stabilization force in Ukraine have agreed to set up a headquarters in Paris to facilitate a rapid deployment after the war ends.