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Nov. 30, 2025, 10:28 a.m.

In December, Odesa Regional Council deputies will convene a session to approve the budget

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A session of the Odesa Regional Council. PHOTO: Intent/Natalia Dovbysh

A session of the Odesa Regional Council. PHOTO: Intent/Natalia Dovbysh

Deputies of the Odesa Regional Council have been convened for a regular plenary meeting to be held on December 4, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. in the session hall.

The relevant order of the Chairman of the Odesa Regional Council, Hryhoriy Didenko, was published on the website.

The meeting will be key for the region, as the deputies plan to consider and approve the regional budget for the next year, as well as the accompanying targeted programs that will determine the financing of the social sphere, healthcare, education, infrastructure facilities and community support.

What is planned for the session

According to the document, the agenda includes issues of the Budget and Finance block. Among them are the draft regional budget and related development programs that determine the priority areas of funding in 2026.

In addition, the deputies have to approve draft decisions:

  • On the activities of the regional council and its bodies.
  • On targeted programs, concepts, and urban planning.
  • On jointly owned objects of territorial communities of villages, towns, and
  • and cities of the region.
  • On land relations.
  • On the establishment, liquidation, change of name, approval of charters
  • of municipal enterprises and institutions, amendments to them, and their activities.
  • Other issues within the competence of the regional council.
  • Appeals of deputies.
  • Deputies' inquiries.

In addition to the elected officials, the session is attended by people's deputies of Ukraine, the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration and his deputies, the head of the Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office, the head of the Main Department of the National Police in Odesa Oblast, the head of the SBU Office in Odesa Oblast, the head of the Odesa MVA, the acting mayor of Odesa, the secretary of the Odesa City Council, and a representative of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights in Odesa Oblast.

The previous meeting of the regional council was held on September 12. The deputies also requested that the title of Hero of Ukraine be awarded with the Order of the Golden Star (posthumously) to Colonel Konstantin Oborin (call sign "Kamikaze"). They also approved a list of the second type of jointly owned objects of territorial communities of villages, towns, and cities in Odesa Oblast to be leased without an auction - the premises in the building of Odesa Oblast Council No. 2 at 83 Kanatna Street and the List of jointly owned objects of territorial communities in the Oblast to be privatized - 18 objects.

On the eve of that session, the chairman of the regional council , Hryhoriy Didenko , became involved in a corruption scandal: the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine granted the application of the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and arrested an apartment and non-residential premises owned by Yulia Didenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament and the wife of the chairman of the regional council. On August 26, the prosecutor's office appealed to the court to declare the assets of the MP, her husband, mother Lyubov Syrota and brother Kostyantyn Syrota unjustified.

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