Mykolaiv Region Plans ₴1.5 Billion for Reconstruction Projects

In Mykolaiv region, it is planned to raise UAH 1.5 billion for the reconstruction. The most common projects concern medical facilities, educational institutions, and water supply systems.

The Center for Public Investigations has analyzed applications submitted by various institutions in Mykolaiv Oblast to DREAM since the beginning of 2025.

According to the available data, 40 facilities are planned to be restored in the region for a total of UAH 1.5 billion, but the declared cost was only UAH 191.2 million.

The largest package of announced projects in terms of volume and cost belongs to the Mykolaiv community, where they plan to restore 15 facilities worth UAH 579.2 million.

Last week, the Department of Urban Planning, Architecture, Capital Construction and Development Project Support of the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration submitted to DREAM one of the most expensive projects to date - the construction of buildings for the neuropsychiatric department of the Mykolaiv Regional Mental Health Center.

The cost of this project is estimated at UAH 328.4 million, but there are currently no confirmed sources of funding. The goal of the project is to ensure uninterrupted and high-quality access to health care, with all the necessary engineering networks: water supply, sewage, electricity, heating, ventilation and fire protection, as well as accessibility and unimpeded movement inside the building.

In addition, the project to reconstruct the chlorination plants in Pervomaisk was fully funded. The application for the renovation was submitted by the Housing and Utilities Department of the Pervomaisk City Council, and the project cost is UAH 123.6 million. Funding can come from both the state budget and local budgets under the Ukraine Recovery Program.

The purpose of this project is to technically re-equip chlorination stations by replacing the drinking water disinfection system that uses liquid chlorine with a system using a sodium hypochlorite solution. The reconstruction involves the modernization of chlorination stations at the treatment facilities OVNS-1 (at 125 Popovycha Street, which treats water from the Sinyukha River) and OVNS-2 (at 46 Sichovykh Striltsiv Street, which supplies the city with water from the Pivdennyi Buh River).

Since April 2023, the restoration of facilities damaged or destroyed by Russian troops has been the responsibility of the Infrastructure Restoration and Development Service. However, according to the responses of the IRS in Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, as of today, this service has not approved funding plans for 2025 and does not provide for the allocation of funds for the restoration of facilities damaged as a result of hostilities. Thus, although the Restoration Service exists de jure, in practice, local authorities and budgetary institutions are forced to seek funding and investors for projects on their own.

In addition, the Mykolaiv region decided to restore the water supply system, which was damaged during the occupation. Germany has already allocated three million hryvnias for this project, but more than one hundred million is needed to fully implement it.

In addition, Mykolaiv plans to build a new heating network. So far, more than three million hryvnias of the required four hundred have been raised. The project involves the construction of an underground central heating main along Pogranichna Street, within Korabeliv and Marshal Vasilevsky Streets. The main goal is to eliminate the problem of municipal heating networks failures.

Анна Бальчінос