Dombrovska said there is no shelter in school №12, Sienkevych tells her to seek funding

Mykolaiv City Council member Tetiana Dombrovska. Photo: NikVesti

Tetiana Dombrovska, a member of the Mykolaiv City Council from the «Servant of the People» party, said that school №12 still has no shelter, and in response, Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych advised her to help find funds for the arrangement.

This became known at a regular session of the Mykolaiv City Council on Thursday, 27 November, according to NikVesti.

This issue arose during the discussion of the second project to rebuild the destroyed school №51, in particular, Tetiana Dombrovska asked the mayor who would be responsible for the wasted money on the project.

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«Children really come first, and I can say that as a mother now. But I have a question, the first question. How are schools prioritised? Because I've also been approached by many parents, and for some reason, all departments refuse me. They say there is no money [...] Of the latter, I was approached by school 12 because they have no shelter,» said Tetiana Dombrovska.

At the same time, Oleksandr Sienkevych suggested that the deputy herself join the search for resources.

«I am giving a protocol instruction to the Capital Construction Department to provide Tetiana Dombrovska with information about all the shelters that need funding today. Perhaps Tetiana will help to find funds in the state budget or any other,» said Oleksandr Sienkevych.

Shelters in schools: what is known

As of early September 2025, contractors are developing projects to repair shelters in nine schools and kindergartens in Mykolaiv.

A total of 310 million hryvnias is needed to build shelters in Mykolaiv educational institutions, according to the city budget for 2025. The most expensive shelter is to be built at gymnasium №10, with an estimated cost of 70 million hryvnias, while all the others will cost 30 million hryvnias each.

As a reminder, in 2024, the Capital Construction Department of the City Council spent 7.6 million hryvnias on the construction of shelters in schools and kindergartens in Mykolaiv.

Prior to that, the Capital Construction Department had named the safety component as a priority for its work in 2025. The plan was to build seven new shelters in schools and kindergartens, and to overhaul three more in hospitals.

At the same time, Mykolaiv region was among the three regions where the largest number of school shelters were built under the programme «School Offline».