13 April 2026
(PHOTO: Odesa MBA)
All Odesa schoolchildren from grades 1 to 11 are entitled to free transportation on city trams and trolleybuses until the end of martial law.
Olga Lozova, deputy head of the city's military administration, reminded that this benefit can be used through the national ecosystem Mriya or with a regular school certificate.
To avoid paying fares, the child just needs to show the digital document "Mriya-ID" in the mobile application. The process of connecting the city to the platform is in full swing: 28 schools are already working in the system, 87 more have applied, and more than 5,300 students are successfully using electronic identifiers.
If a school is not yet integrated into the application, a child has the full right to travel with a paper certificate. More than 28,500 children have already received such documents. If a student does not yet have either a digital Mriya-ID or a paper certificate, parents should contact the principal of their educational institution.
The executive committee introduced free travel for schoolchildren on trams and trolleybuses in Odesa at the end of December 2025 and it was supposed to come into force on January 1, 2026, but on the morning of December 31, 2025, the head of the Odesa City Administration, Serhiy Lysak, said that due to a shortage of electricity, trams and trolleybuses in Odesa were not yet operating at night that day, when the Russians massively attacked Odesa. In the evening of the same day, the mayors of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, and Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Senkevych, announced that they had sent buses to Odesa to replace trams and trolleybuses on the city streets. Subsequently, buses arrived from other regions - the last batch of five vehicles arrived on February 28, 2026.
On March 28, Odesa's electric transport started running in test mode after a long period of forced downtime and is now operating as it did before the New Year.
Кирило Бойко