A construction team builds a Kyiv-Dnipro highway section in Kyiv Oblast on May 29, 2020.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made it clear at a press conference in May that he wants to be “remembered as the president who built good roads in Ukraine.”
The roads in Ukraine are among the worst in the world, and Zelensky’s government has started a large-scale infrastructure program called Big Construction, designed to improve the quality of roads.