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During the warm season of 2026, the Apparatus 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 practices in medicine, ecology, sports, and waste management, while some funds were used to accompany children’s groups abroad.
KyivVlada investigated who received the most money for business trips, where representatives of the Ukrainian capital visited, and what results they returned with.
As became known from the public spending portal E-data, during May–September the KCSA Apparatus allocated 1,93 million hryvnias for business trips. Funds were transferred both to employees of the apparatus itself and to officials of KCSA departments, communal enterprises, and city institutions.
Of that sum, 296,3 thousand hryvnias were received by Apparatus employees of the KCSA whose surnames are not listed in the corresponding payment documents.
Nearly identical amounts — 99,4 thousand hryvnias each — were received by the deputy head of the International Cooperation Department of the KCSA Apparatus, Vladyslav Nikolaiev, and the 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 specialists at leading clinics in Brussels. Mostepan also said that Belgium is allocating 10 million euros to develop burn care in Ukraine, including 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 the first deputy director of the KCSA Department of Economics and Investments, Vyacheslav Panchenko. In May the official visited Turin, Italy, where he took part in the Cities Mission Conference 2026, organized within the EU Mission “Climate-neutral and Smart Cities.” According to Panchenko, the conference discussed attracting investment for environmental projects, modernizing urban infrastructure, and opportunities for Kyiv to deepen its participation in the European “green” transformation.
Photo: Vyacheslav Panchenko at a conference in Turin, Italy
Almost identical sums for business trips were received by two leaders of the Department of Territorial Control of the City of Kyiv. The first deputy director of the department, Mykhailo Abramov, was allocated 89,5 thousand hryvnias, and the deputy director — head of the Parking Management (inspection) — Oleksandr Spinchevskyi received 89,3 thousand hryvnias.
Next on the list are five officials connected with environmental protection and the city’s green management. These include deputy general director of the municipal enterprise “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 were 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.
A further 58,4 thousand hryvnias for business trips 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 sector of the Department of Youth and Sports, Mariya Paladii, was allocated 27,7 thousand hryvnias; the head of the high-performance sports division of the same department, Serhii Klymov — 20,8 thousand hryvnias; and the head of the youth policy division, Halyna Prachkovska — 14,5 thousand hryvnias. Another 20,6 thousand hryvnias were received by the director of the Specialized Sports School for Persons with Disabilities “Meteor,” Serhii Pivko.
On the Invasport website it was reported that representatives of the Department of Youth and Sports, Invasport, and the Specialized Sports School for Persons with Disabilities, as part of the Kyiv delegation, visited Hamburg, Germany. There they studied 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 Specialized Sports School for Persons with Disabilities “Meteor” Serhii Pivko in Hamburg (source — his post on instagram)
7,6 thousand hryvnias were transferred for business trips to two representatives of the KCSA Department of Housing and Communal Infrastructure. These are the department’s deputy director — head of the Housing and Communal Policy Department, Oleksandr Malykhin, and the head of the Information-Analytical Support for Certain Types of Economic Activity in the Housing and Communal Services sector, Yuliia Tkach.
Closing this selection is the director of the municipal enterprise “Kyivkomunservice,” Maksym Liashkevych, who was also allocated 7,6 thousand hryvnias. The enterprise said that in early May he traveled with a KCSA delegation for a week to Oslo to learn from Norwegian waste management practices. There Kyiv officials visited waste-to-energy and recycling facilities and a specialized hub where they saw how sorting, collection, and processing of waste are organized in the Norwegian capital.
Photo: Director of the municipal enterprise “Kyivkomunservice” Maksym Liashkevych (left) in Oslo
Note 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 overseas trips for children’s groups. As KyivVlada learned from the relevant order, Olha Stukalenko is a teacher at the youth sports school “Kyiv Sportive.” From 8 to 22 August she, together with four other adults, accompanied a group of 43 students of the school to the French town of Ménil-le-Roi.
Iryna Karpenko is head of the office at the Kyiv Palace of Children and Youth. The funds allocated to her were used to organize a trip for 14 students of the palace to the Finnish city of Tampere, 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 another foreign business trip, for which KyivVlada could not find payment transactions on the E-data portal for May–September. 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 focused on internal audit methodology and practice. According to her, participation in the event occurred 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
Earlier KyivVlada wrote that last year was a year of personnel upheavals among top officials for the KCSA 2025, which affected the structure of allocations and produced new leaders in terms of payment levels. In total, the head of the KCSA, Vitali Klitschko, and his deputies were allocated more than 19,3 million hryvnias in salaries and supplements last year. The largest amounts went to Petro Panteleiev, while the most significant increases in payments were recorded for Vladyslav Andronov and Vyacheslav Nepop.
More than 30 million hryvnias — that is how much in 2025 the capital directed to pay the salaries of department and division heads of the KCSA (amount indicated before taxation). This includes allocations to both current officials and those who left their posts during the year or only recently took up their roles. Overall, it is clear that official incomes of KCSA managers rise steadily each year, though unevenly. For example, last year the largest payments went to the longtime and now former head of the Department of Health, Valentyna Hinzburg, while the fastest growth was shown by the head of the Department of Youth and Sports, Yuliia Khan.
The KCSA Apparatus is headed by Dmytro Zahumennyi.
Authors: Aliona Momot, Anastasiia Komandik
KyivVlada
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