Like so many people in the West, Andrew Forrest was at once horrified and enraged by Russia’s brutal war of aggression against Ukraine.
Just weeks after the full-scale invasion started, Forrest – one of Australia’s richest people – started to corral support for what he said should become a fund of at least $100 billion, targeting Ukraine’s reconstruction, and focused on green infrastructure. In the aftermath of the biggest war in Europe since 1945, Forrest saw it as a chance to replicate the post-Second World War Marshall Plan of US economic aid to Europe.
After bringing up the idea during meetings in early 2022 with leaders including US president Joe Biden and then UK prime minister Boris Johnson, the mining and renewable energy billionaire spent a week in Kyiv, meeting president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and others.
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