The Mykolaiv budget will allocate ₴14 million for patching roads

The condition of the road on Central Avenue in Mykolaiv after the snow melted. Photo: "NikVesti"

The Mykolaiv budget will allocate 14 million hryvnias for emergency and patch repairs to roads.

The corresponding draft decision on the redistribution of expenditures for 2026 by the Department of Housing and Communal Services of the Mykolaiv City Council within the total budget allocation has been published on the city council's website.

In a comment to NikVesti, Ihor Nabatov, first deputy head of the city council's housing and communal services department, explained that these funds will be withdrawn from the municipal enterprise «Self-financing Construction Mechanisation Division» and transferred to the municipal enterprise «ELU Avtodorig», which will carry out emergency and patch repairs of roads in Mykolaiv.

We will remind you that the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych, stated that there are currently no funds in the budget for routine and major road repairs. After this winter, deep potholes appeared on the roads due to the effects of freeze-thaw cycles and de-icing reagents that were poured onto the asphalt surface.

The mayor noted that the budget only has 20 million hryvnias exclusively for patching roads for the entire year. However, he compared the roads in Mykolaiv with the condition of roads in Kyiv, adding that their condition after winter is the worst.

At the same time, in a comment to NikVesti, the director of the municipal enterprise ELU Avtodorig, Vitalii Shevchenko, said that there would be no large-scale patching of potholes on the roads of Mykolaiv for about another month due to unstable weather conditions and the moisture content of the road base.

In early March, municipal workers began patching potholes on Tsentralnyi Avenue.