The reconstruction of four projects in the Mykolaiv region worth ₴632.7 million has been halted because the state has not allocated the funds

Renovation of Mykolaiv Gymnasium No. 2, photo: NikVesti

Four reconstruction projects for educational and healthcare facilities in the Mykolaiv region, with a total cost of ₴632.7 million, remain unfinished. These were previously funded by the State Fund for the Elimination of the Consequences of Armed Aggression, but work has now been halted due to a lack of funding.

This was reported by MP Oleksandr Pasichnyi in a comment to NikVesti.

In total, 12 such projects remain unfinished across Ukraine, with a total cost of 1.32 billion hryvnias. Four of them are in the Mykolaiv region.

These include the reconstruction of Lyceum №60 in Varvarivka and Mykolaiv Gymnasium №2. According to information received by the MP from the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine, as of August 2026, there was no state funding available to continue work on these two institutions.

In particular, the reconstruction of Lyceum №60 was suspended in the autumn of 2025. At that point, the new building was 36 per cent complete. Construction has not resumed since then.

According to the Ministry of Regional Development, a further 62.5 million hryvnias is required to complete the reconstruction of Lyceum №60.

Construction of Lyceum №60 has been on hold since last autumn

The school was destroyed in July 2022. As a result of the attack, one of the school’s buildings was destroyed, and the nearby children’s playground was also damaged.

In December 2023, the Regional Military Administration’s Department of Urban Development announced a tender for the reconstruction of the destroyed building of Lyceum №60 in Varvarivka. The contractor was «Interbud Construction Company», which offered to carry out the work for 102.5 million hryvnias.

In 2024, the government allocated 76.6 million hryvnias for the reconstruction of the school. The contractor began rebuilding the school in the summer. The work was scheduled to be completed in August 2025.

However, construction work on the new building for Lyceum №60 was suspended as early as autumn 2025 due to a lack of funding from the state budget. It has not yet resumed.

At the same time, the unfinished building of Lyceum №60 needed to be roofed before the start of winter 2025. The Regional Military Administration had been counting on assistance from the city budget, as the school is on the city’s books. However, the city authorities reported that there was no money available for this. The contractor then promised to roof the unfinished building in January. As of August 2026, the work had still not been carried out.

At present, the project is only 36 per cent complete. The contractor demolished the ruined building and erected the «shell» of the new one: they laid the foundations, installed a monolithic reinforced concrete floor slab above the basement and built four storeys. This information was provided to us by the Department of Architecture and Capital Construction of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration.

According to the design plans provided to the editorial team at NikVesti, the plan is to construct a new three-storey building for the lyceum. The ground floor is to house a cloakroom, classrooms, a library reading room, a dance studio, toilets and service rooms. The second floor will house classrooms, the headteacher’s office, toilets, physics and chemistry classrooms, a chemistry laboratory, a sports hall, an equipment room, toilets and service rooms. And on the third floor, there will be a rehearsal room, an assembly hall, a changing room, a staff room, a resource room, a biology classroom and laboratory, a sports hall, classrooms, toilets and utility rooms. There are also plans to install a lift in the new building.