KYIV, Oct 20 – Ukraine and the United States have signed a joint statement of intent to create a U.S.-Ukraine Infrastructure Task Force focused on Ukraine's critical war-time needs, the U.S. Department of Commerce reported on its website.

"Today U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, and Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov announced that they have signed a joint statement of intent to create a U.S.-Ukraine Infrastructure Task Force focused on Ukraine's critical war-time needs and future post-conflict infrastructure reconstruction," the U.S. Department of Commerce said in a press release.