OREANDA-NEWS. July 09, 2012. Preparation to EURO-2012 became an additional factor of economic growth of Ukraine. It was stated by the President in the course of the reception on occasion of EURO-2012 ending.

“Ukraine has been renewed: we’ve built new airports, stadiums, roads and other elements of infrastructure. We’ve renovated public transport in host-cities,” Viktor Yanukovych said.

President Yanukovych also noted that from now on some airports in a number of Ukrainian cities have modern air strips capable of serving planes with bigger weight and that new terminals had enabled to increase the number of passengers. He also reminded that 2200 km of new highways were built and almost 4000 km of roads were renovated.

“This infrastructure is our national asset. It is the investment in the welfare of today’s and future generations,” – the President noted.