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During the warm part of the 2026 year, the Office of the Kyiv City State Administration (Kyiv City State Administration — KCSA) directed nearly 2 million hryvnias to business trips for city officials and staff. Some of these trips were abroad, with destinations ranging from Brussels to Tampere, Finland. According to public reports, they traveled to learn from experience in medicine, ecology, sports, and waste management; meanwhile, part of the funds went to accompanying children’s groups abroad. Kyiv Vlada investigated who received the most money for business trips, where representatives of the Ukrainian capital went, and what results they returned with.
As Kyiv Vlada learned from data on the public funds usage portal E-data, during May–September the Office of the KCSA directed 1,93 million hryvnias to business trips. Funds were transferred both to employees of the office itself and to officials of KCSA departments, municipal enterprises, and institutions of the capital.
Of this sum, 296,3 thousand hryvnias were received by employees of the KCSA office whose names are not specified in the corresponding payment documents.
Nearly identical amounts — 99,4 thousand hryvnias each — were received by Deputy Head of the International Cooperation Division of the International Relations Department of the KCSA Office Vladyslav Nikolaiev and Director of the KCSA Department of Health Tetyana Mostepan.
In particular, in her post at the beginning of September the head of the Department of Health reported on a working visit to Brussels, where she discussed with Belgian colleagues the development of a modern system of burn care in Kyiv. According to her, one of the key agreements was future internships for Kyiv burn-specialist doctors at leading clinics in Brussels. Mostepan also reported that Belgium is allocating 10 million euros to the development of burn care in Ukraine, including for the creation of a modern burn center.
Photo: Director of the KCSA Department of Health Tetyana Mostepan and the mayor of Brussels, Philippe Close
Slightly less — 93,4 thousand hryvnias — was transferred to First Deputy Director of the KCSA Department of Economy and Investments Viacheslav Panchenko. In May the official visited Turin, Italy, where he took part in the Cities Mission Conference 2026, organized as part of the EU Mission “Climate-neutral and Smart Cities.” According to Panchenko, the conference discussed attracting investment to environmental projects, modernizing urban infrastructure, and opportunities for Kyiv to deepen its participation in the European “green” transformation.
Photo: Viacheslav Panchenko at a conference in Turin, Italy
Nearly identical business trip sums were received by two heads of the Kyiv City Department of Territorial Control. First Deputy Director of the department Mykhailo Abramov was allocated 89,5 thousand hryvnias, and Deputy Director — Head of the Parking Management (Inspection) Division Oleksandr Spinchevskyi received 89,3 thousand hryvnias.
Next on the list are five officials related to environmental protection and the capital’s green management. These include Deputy General Director of the municipal company Kyivzelenbud Arina Alekseeva, who was allocated 74,6 thousand hryvnias; chief specialist of one of the divisions of the KCSA Department of Environmental Protection and Climate Change Adaptation Oksana Melnyk — 74,3 thousand hryvnias; Deputy General Director of Kyivzelenbud Arshak Magalov — 72,7 thousand hryvnias. Another 70,7 thousand hryvnias was received by Deputy Director of the Department of Environmental Protection and Climate Change Adaptation Oleksandr Savchenko, and the head of that department, Pavlo Ivanov — 69,5 thousand hryvnias.
Another 58,4 thousand hryvnias for business travel were allocated to Irena Koval, who heads the veterans and persons with disabilities sports sector of the KCSA Department of Youth and Sports.
Funds for business trips were also received by three representatives of the Kyiv City Center for Physical Culture and Sports for Persons with Disabilities “Invasport”: center director Serhii Pchelin — 35,3 thousand hryvnias, and his employees Maksym Piven and Nazar Hlon — 36,8 thousand and 32,2 thousand hryvnias, respectively.
The list also includes other sports representatives. The head of the wellness activities sector of the Department of Youth and Sports, Mariia Paladii, was allocated 27,7 thousand hryvnias; head of the High Performance Sports Department of the same department, Serhii Klymov — 20,8 thousand hryvnias; and head of the Youth Policy Department Halyna Prachkowska — 14,5 thousand hryvnias. Another 20,6 thousand hryvnias was received by the director of the sports school for persons with disabilities “Meteor,” Serhii Pivko.
The KCSA “Invasport” website reported that representatives of the Department of Youth and Sports, Invasport, and the sports school for persons with disabilities, as part of the Kyiv delegation, visited Hamburg, Germany. There they familiarized themselves with practices for developing sports for persons with disabilities and sports rehabilitation. They also visited sports facilities and the BG Klinikum rehabilitation clinic.
Photo: Head of Invasport Serhii Pchelin in Hamburg (source — his post on facebook)
Photo: Director of the sports school for persons with disabilities “Meteor,” Serhii Pivko in Hamburg (source — his post on instagram)
Equal amounts — 7,6 thousand hryvnias each — for business trips were transferred to two representatives of the KCSA Department of Housing and Communal Infrastructure. These are Deputy Director of the department — Head of the Housing and Communal Policy Division Oleksandr Malykhin and Head of the Information and Analytical Support for Certain Types of Economic Activity in the Housing and Utilities Sector Division, Yuliia Tkach.
Rounding out this selection is Director of the municipal enterprise Kyivkomunservice, Maksym Liashkevych, who was also allocated 7,6 thousand hryvnias. The enterprise reported that in early May he, together with a KCSA delegation, traveled for a week to Oslo to learn Norwegian experience in household waste management. There, Kyiv officials visited waste-to-energy and recycling facilities and a specialized hub where they saw how sorting, collection, and recycling of waste are organized in the Norwegian capital.
Photo: Director of the municipal enterprise Kyivkomunservice Maksym Liashkevych (left) in Oslo
It is worth noting that the largest business trip payments — 259 and 204 thousand hryvnias — went to Olha Stukalenko and Iryna Karpenko. In both cases, the travel funds were related to organizing foreign trips for children’s groups. As Kyiv Vlada learned from the relevant order, Olha Stukalenko is a teacher at the youth sports school “Kyiv Sportyvnyi.” From 8 to 22 August she, together with four other adults, accompanied a group of 43 pupils of the school to the French town of Meigny-le-Rieu.
Iryna Karpenko holds the position of head of the office at the Kyiv Palace of Children and Youth. The funds transferred to her were for organizing a trip for 14 pupils of the palace to Tampere, Finland, which lasted from 20 to 31 July. Later the institution’s website reported that during the trip the children stayed at the Finnish camp Sorja.
It is worth mentioning one more foreign business trip, for which transactions for payment from May–September were not found on the E-data portal. In August the Director of the KCSA Department of Internal Audit, Oksana Koltyk, wrote on social media about a three-day working trip to Budapest dedicated to methodology and practice of internal audit. According to her, participation in the event took place at the invitation of the National Academy of Finance and Economics of the Ministry of Finance of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Photo: Oksana Koltyk (with a smartphone), source — her social media page
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