April 3, 2025, 7:23 p.m.

Odesa to Begin Car Evacuations in May: Drivers Face ₴2,000 Fee

(Photo: Screenshot from the video)

In Odesa, forced evacuation of cars may begin as early as May, and drivers will have to pay 2000 hryvnias in addition to a fine.

This was discussed at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Transport and Roads on April 3.

As it has become known, Odesa is preparing to launch a system for evacuating cars that significantly interfere with traffic. The necessary documents are being finalized and the evacuation procedure is being determined.

"We are arranging special vehicles and working on documents to implement the evacuation. We are tentatively planning to complete this process by May," the meeting was informed.

According to preliminary information, the cost of evacuation will be 2000 hryvnias. If a car is parked on tram tracks or creates serious obstacles to traffic, it can be forcibly evacuated, and the owner will have to pay not only a fine but also the cost of transportation.

The calculation of the cost has already been prepared, and it remains to be officially approved. The final decision is to be made by the executive committee.

Earlier, Intent wrote that Odesa is investigating the purchase of "golden" parking bollards. An official of the municipal institution "SMEP" Yevhenia Bereza is involved in it, having purchased these posts at inflated prices. On behalf of the institution, she announced an open tender for the purchase of 300 anti-parking bollards worth 1 million hryvnias. However, only one entrepreneur took part in the tender - individual entrepreneur Vitaliy Nikolayev, who offered to supply the bollards for UAH 996,000, i.e. UAH 3,320 per unit excluding VAT.

Law enforcement officers found out that the real market price of such bollards at the time of the contract was only UAH 1,231 per unit. Thus, the difference in price resulted in an overpayment of over UAH 626 thousand. The head of the procurement department of CMEP was suspected of official negligence, which caused grave consequences.

Ірина Глухова

You might also like:

Dec. 4, 2025

New Deputy Mayor for Social Protection and Investments appointed in Odesa

A scandal erupts in Odesa over non-transparent reconstruction of elevators

Odesa Regional Council gets rid of two deputies ahead of schedule

In the case of the fire in the College of Economics and Law in Odesa, the interrogation of witnesses has begun

Odesa City Council Executive Committee to consider redistribution of investments and anti-corruption changes

Director of regional medical center fired in Odesa

Director of dolphinarium arrested in Odesa for construction on Lanzheron

DIU intelligence blocked sanatorium of businessmen from Odesa in Koncha Zaspa

Night attack in Odesa damages houses and injures 7 people

Dec. 3, 2025

Galanternik hired a law firm to force journalists to remove articles

Explosion occurs in Odesa high-rise building

Head of military housing department in Odesa convicted of extortion

Head of Odesa city election committee resigns from the post of chief doctor

"My grandmothers did not live to see the war": a new book about terrible events

Enterprises were offered the opportunity to provide their own air defense