The most expensive purchases of the Kherson Oblast Infrastructure Department were crossovers

In 2024-2025, the Department of Infrastructure of the Kherson Regional State Administration spent millions of hryvnias from the budget on equipment repairs, fuel, transportation, and new cars.

A journalist from the Center for Public Investigations decided to use the Zakupivli.pro platform to investigate what the Department of Infrastructure of the Kherson Regional State Administration spent on in 2024 and early 2025.

According to the order of the head of the Kherson Regional State Administration of 2023, the department is an executive body that is maintained at the expense of the territorial community. Its responsibilities include privatization of housing stock, organization of passenger transportation, control over utility companies, development and implementation of local programs, control over landscaping and waste management, organization of repair and reconstruction of residential buildings and utility networks, etc.

The Department of Infrastructure of the Kherson Regional State Administration began 2024 by announcing tenders for vehicle maintenance and repair services. Their total cost was more than half a million hryvnias. The forensic construction and technical expertise, which was appointed by a ruling of the Odesa Oblast Economic Court, cost almost UAH 250 thousand.

In April 2024, more than 50 thousand were allocated for the transportation of humanitarian goods by road. The department spent more than UAH 2 million on A-95 gasoline, including under five large contracts.

In particular, transportation services for the evacuation of passengers at the end of last year cost the budget UAH 300 thousand. In January 2025, passenger transportation by road also cost UAH 300,000, and transportation services for organized groups of people cost UAH 350,000. The department had to spend half a million on transportation of children.

In April 2025, the Department of Infrastructure of the Kherson Regional State Administration announced three purchases of a Chery TIGGO 2 PRO car, each for 600 thousand, but the bidding did not take place. The institution reduced the price by 1 hryvnia and purchased three cars from the same supplier for almost 1.8 million.

Currently, the last recorded procurement is the purchase of 8 tires for vehicles from the South Korean brand Kumho for 38 thousand hryvnias.

The total amount of expenses of the Department of Infrastructure of the Kherson Regional State Administration for 2024 and the beginning of 2025 is more than UAH 6 million. Thus, three Chery TIGGO 2 PRO passenger cars were the most expensive of all purchases, followed by the purchase of fuel. Despite the fact that some of the expenses are related to humanitarian or evacuation transportation, a significant part of the procurement raises questions about the priorities in the allocation of budget funds during the war.

The Kherson City Planning Department spent hundreds of thousands of hryvnias from the city budget in 2024. The main expenditures included the repair of equipment, development of land documentation, and the purchase of new equipment, software, and stationery.

Анна Бальчінос