Analysts investigate funding of TRS in Mykolaiv region

The Center for Public Investigations continues to check the budgets of all communities in Mykolaiv Oblast for 2022-2025. The analysts found out how much money the local authorities actually allocated for territorial defense and preparation of residents for resistance.

This became known to the analysts of the Center for Public Investigations.

The analysts divided the district's communities into three groups based on their attitude to funding for territorial defense (TDF). The overall picture was disappointing: in total, over four years, the communities spent 438.8 million hryvnias on landscaping, while only 26.4 million hryvnias were spent on supporting the territorial defense.

Who financed TROs on a regular basis?

Only three communities have consistently allocated funds for defense every year, but the figures vary greatly:

• Myhiyivka community: The only one where in 2024 the expenditures on maintenance (5.9 million) exceeded the expenditures on improvement (5.3 million).
• Kryvoozerska community: Supported TROs constantly, but the amounts ranged from 1.8 million to a modest 60 thousand hryvnias.
• Pervomaisk city community: The largest disparity was recorded here. In 2023, a symbolic UAH 1.9 thousand was allocated for the TRO, while UAH 198.7 million was spent on paving stones and flowers. The difference in funding was more than 100,000 times.

Some communities remembered about defense only at the beginning of the full-scale invasion:

• Kamianomostivka and Blahodatne communities allocated funds only in 2022. After that, funding stopped, although spending on landscaping was steadily increasing.
• In 2024, Vradiyivka community allocated 4.4 million for TRO, but for 2025, not a single penny was budgeted. At the same time, they have spent more than 31 million on landscaping over the years.
• Over the past four years, Syniushynobrid council has allocated less than 400 thousand for maintenance, while spending on paving has been growing every year, reaching almost 100 million in total.

CPR analysts point to a dangerous trend: while in 2022 all 8 communities in the district allocated funds for defense , in 2025 only 3 of them remained.

Катерина Глушко