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Wow! The Recovery Service awarded the largest contracts this week in the Mykolaiv region. It ordered repairs of three local highways for 5,71 billion UAH. These repairs are planned to be financed with European Union funds under the Ukraine Facility program.
This is a significant portion of the money Ukraine has planned for road repairs next year. From the Road Fund, 34 billion UAH will go to repair and operational maintenance of state roads (the rest is for local road repairs and repayment of old debts). In “public investment projects” for transport infrastructure, 34 billion UAH is also planned.
So almost 6 billion for three roads in Mykolaiv region is 8% of the total 68 billion UAH that can be expected next year for road repairs. And that’s “somewhat” more than Mykolaiv region’s overall share in Ukraine’s road network.
At the same time, they will not be repairing entire highways in Mykolaiv region, only sections of them. And moreover, the biggest sums will be spent not on patching a larger number of kilometers, but on deep major repairs and reconstruction of smaller sections. The numbers here