Ukraine has vowed to make Russia pay for the economic damage caused by its invasion, with the total cost to the economy currently estimated at $564.9 billion. The government has also announced new support for internally displaced people, powered by its groundbreaking Diia public service app.
The assistance will be available through the Ukrainian government’s much-lauded Diia (which in Ukrainian means “action”) platform, a smartphone app launched in 2020 which acts as a one-stop shop for public services and a wallet for digital versions of official documents: digital passports and driving licences stored in the app have the same legal status as their paper originals.
According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation, Diia was already being used by more than 13 million people (around a third of the population) by the end of 2021.
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