VIENNA: US financier George Soros said Monday he was ready to invest US$1 billion (RM3.72 billion) in Ukraine if the West promised to help the embattled country.
“Ukraine is defending the EU from Russian aggression” and helping its development will weaken Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Hungarian-born philanthropist said in remarks published in German by the Austrian business daily Der Standard.
He said Ukraine needed €50 billion (RM201.5 billion) to get itself back on its feet, and said he was prepared to pump US$1 billion into agriculture and infrastructural projects.
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Source: theSun
