The departments headed by Deputy Mayors Korenev and Andriienko performed worst in terms of budget execution in Mykolaiv: over ₴300 million remained unused

Deputy Mayors of Mykolaiv Serhii Korenev and Yurii Andriienko, collage NikVesti

The Department of Housing and Communal Services and the Capital Construction Department (CCD) of Mykolaiv performed the worst in terms of executing the city's 2025 budget. This is evidenced by data on the use of budget funds at the end of the year, published on the website of the Mykolaiv City Council, which was analysed by NikVesti.

The lowest percentage of implementation was recorded by the Capital Construction Department (UKS), which is subordinate to Deputy Mayor Serhii Korenev and spent only 142.7 million hryvnias out of the planned 235 million hryvnias. Thus, their budget implementation rate was 60.7%.

Information from the city council on the implementation of the Mykolaiv budget for 2025, data from the city council website

If the CCD had not taken away about 70 million hryvnias in December, the level of implementation would have been even less than half, i.e. 46.8%, with the amount of unspent funds increasing to over 162 million hryvnias.

At the same time, expenditures on labour remuneration in the administration were executed at 100%: of the planned 8.8 million hryvnias for salaries and accruals during the year, the entire amount was used down to the last penny.

It should be noted that the CCD does not systematically spend budget funds: the implementation rate at the end of 2024 was 32%, and at the end of 2023 it was 32.4%.

Thus, according to the results of 2025, 92.3 million hryvnias remained unspent, which the Capital Construction Department was supposed to spend on capital expenditures, namely repairs, reconstruction and the acquisition of fixed assets.

Another department coordinated by Deputy Mayor Serhii Korenev is the Department of Emergency Situations and Civil Protection. According to the results of 2025, the department spent 88% of the budgeted funds — 96.4 million hryvnias. 13.1 million hryvnias remained unspent.

The largest department in terms of unused funds at the end of the year was the Department of Housing and Communal Services (DHCS). Its work is supervised by Deputy Mayor Yurii Andrienko.

Of the planned 1.6 billion hryvnias in expenditures, the DHCS spent 1.4 billion (86%). 231.4 million hryvnias remained unused. The lowest percentage of implementation was capital expenditures, namely the repair of the housing stock, where only 74.4 million hryvnias (28.8%) of the planned 258 million hryvnias were spent. However, salary expenditures were implemented at 100%.

It should be noted that during the last budget redistribution in 2025, the city council allocated an additional 225.8 million hryvnias to the Housing and Utilities Department, including a state subsidy.

In total, the Capital Construction Department, the Department of Housing and Communal Services, and the Emergency Situations Department of the city council were unable to spend 336.9 million hryvnias of Mykolaiv's budget in 2025. According to official data, a total of 653 million hryvnias of Mykolaiv's budget remained unspent at the end of the year.

Execution of the 2025 budget by departments of the Mykolaiv City Council

• Executive Committee: cash expenditures — 1.2 billion hryvnias, which is 87.9% of the annual plan;
• Department of Education: cash expenditures — 2.3 billion hryvnias, which is 95.6% of the annual plan;
• Health Department: cash expenditures — 253 million hryvnias, which is 98.8%;
• Department of Labour and Social Protection: cash expenditures — 350.5 million hryvnias, which is 98.8%;
• Department of Culture and Cultural Heritage Protection: cash expenditures — 221 million hryvnias, which is 98.6%;
• Department of Sports: cash expenditures of 195.8 million hryvnias, which is 99.4% of the annual plan;
• Department of Housing and Communal Services: spent 1.4 billion hryvnias, which is 86.1% of the annual plan;
• Department of Energy and Energy Conservation: spent 57.5 million hryvnias, which is 92.8% of the plan;
• Capital Construction Department: cash expenditures — 142.7 million hryvnias, which is 60.7% of the annual plan;
• State Architectural and Construction Control Department: spent 10.4 million hryvnias, which is 96% of the annual plan;
• Department of Emergency Situations and Civil Protection: spent 96.4 million hryvnias, which amounted to 88% of the annual plan;
• Department of Municipal Property: spent 9.2 million hryvnias, which is 99.6% of the department's total budget;
• Department of Administrative Services: spent 40.8 million hryvnias, which is 99.8% of the department's budget;
• Finance Department: spent 22.6 million hryvnias, which is 56.6% of the annual plan;
• Department of Internal Financial Control, Supervision and Anti-Corruption: spent 12 million hryvnias, which is 88.8% of the annual plan;
• Zavodskyi District Administration: spent 87.8 million hryvnias, which is 99.7% of their annual budget;
• Administration of the Korabelnyi District: spent 88.3 million hryvnias, which is 99.7% of the annual budget;
• Administration of the Inhulskyi district: spent 94 million hryvnias, which amounted to 97.9% of the annual budget;
• Central District Administration: spent 93.4 million hryvnias, which amounted to 99.6% of the annual budget.

Earlier, Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych stated that the remaining funds in the Mykolaiv budget at the end of 2025 amounted to about 300 million hryvnias, which is «the lowest figure in recent years.»

As is known, the Mykolaiv City Council plans to appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with a request to provide an additional subsidy from the state budget. According to the city's calculations, its own budget revenues for 2026 are only enough to cover 82.5% of the actual needs, and the financial resource deficit exceeds 1 billion 140 million hryvnias.