 Ukraine needs just over $6 billion more in the next 12 months to help recover from Russia's war, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmihal said on June 21. Speaking at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London where Western nations have committed billions to help rebuild Ukraine, Shmihal said Ukraine has set an ambitious goal of securing pledges for this amount as a result of the conference. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking via video link, said his country needed more targeted help in real projects that would spur growth in an economy he said had moved far away from the oligarchic model of Ukraine's immediate post-Soviet era. Ukraine is seeking up to $40 billion to fund the first part of a green-martial plan to rebuild its economy, including developing a coal-free steel industry, a senior Ukrainian official said before the conference. Pacing is who will pay the hundreds of billions for the recovery. First and foremost, Russia must pay for what it has destroyed.