«My team should be thanked for this», — Kim said that Mykolaiv Oblast is a leader in saving the regional budget and allocating aid to the Armed Forces

Thanks to cooperation with international donors and business partners, the Mykolaiv region is a leader in spending funds without additional funding from the budget.

This was stated by the head of Mykolaiv RMA Vitalii Kim during a briefing on Saturday, October 28, «NikVesti» writes.

Vitaly Kim recalled several large projects that partners and donors helped to restore, in particular, the restoration of the building of the emergency medical hospital, with which business from Kazakhstan worked, destroyed bridges in the Mykolayiv region with the involvement of United24, donations to the Ukrainian army.

— Mykolaiv region is a pioneer in spending non-budgetary funds: ICU was made free of charge thanks to our work, it was given to the army free of charge, we repair schools for other accounts. We do not even spend budget funds on donations to the Armed Forces, we attract. During the year, 13 bridges in the region were restored with non-budgetary funds. This is all a lot of savings, I accumulated money because I understood that personal income tax could be taken from the military, it must be done, but we must have funds left to survive. That is why I did not spend money to the maximum, although I had the right, and attracted funds from businesses, people, and donors. The Mykolaiv Region has done very well these past one and a half years in terms of budget expenditures. And for that, I have to say thank you to my entire team, — said Vitalii Kim.

In addition, the head of the RMA notes that since the beginning of 2023, 1.2 billion hryvnias have been spent from the budgets of communities of the Mykolaiv region to help the Armed Forces.

— 1.2 billion was spent on the armed forces in the region this year. From all UTC different and so on, approximately. I have already moved on from cooperation with individual divisions. People are different, and the military is different. I have been cooperating with brigade commanders for more than a year, and we satisfy all applications. I'm not even writing about drones. Last week, we handed over 30 Maviks to the Kherson air missile defense system to Dropatom (General Mykhailo Dropatyy, — note). Two weeks ago — another 30, and I still have a little in reserve, and this is zero budget funds. I can buy them myself. Do you want me to buy my own drones, which I have for free? Why spend budget funds if we transfer much more than in any region for non-budget funds, — he added.

The head of Mykolayiv RMA Vitalii Kim thanked the publication «Nashi Hroshi» for the analysis of purchases for the reconstruction of the waterworks, in which the journalists found a substantial overpayment several times, although earlier he urged «don't believe bad news."