The Department of Housing and Communal Services does not know how many damaged houses will be able to be restored in 2024

As of the beginning of 2024, the Department of Housing and Communal Services of Mykolaiv has prepared projects for the restoration of 25 high-rise buildings damaged by shelling. However, it is currently unknown how much will be restored in 2024.

This was announced by the deputy director of the housing and communal services department of the city council, Ihor Nabatov, during the mayor's press conference on the results of 2023, NikVesti reports.

Last year, it was possible to restore 140 damaged houses and four that were directly hit by an enemy missile.

«There are certainly plans for 2024. Now they are finally adjusted taking into account those limits that were proved by the finance department. A lot of preparatory work has been done to begin the recovery process. Namely, the production of design and estimate documentation, which is a key point for ordering contract works,» said Ihor Nabatov.

Currently, project and cost documentation for the restoration of 25 buildings has already been developed, and contracts have already been signed for 7 buildings and the restoration process is ongoing, he explained. Ihor Nabatov says that the city plans to attract donor funds for their restoration.

«As for how we will get out of the situation, such an interesting Dream platform has been introduced at the state level (a digital ecosystem for accountable recovery management, note). We plan to use this platform to look for donor organizations that will help implement such projects. It is impossible to say for sure that it will be possible to restore it now,» said Ihor Nabatov.

Read also the article by NikVesti «Tens of thousands of people were left without a home: how can Mykolaiv residents get new housing?».

We remind that 40 million hryvnias were allocated from the Mykolaiv budget in 2023 for the restoration of high-rise buildings damaged as a result of Russian shelling.

The first high-rise building damaged by shelling in Mykolaiv began to be restored at the expense of the city budget in July 2023. We are talking about a house on Krylova Street, which was hit by a Russian missile in the summer of 2022.

Subsequently, the Department of Housing and Housing announced a tender for the restoration of a five-story building in the center of Mykolaiv, which was destroyed by a Russian missile in the fall of 2022.

Also, the city council supported the allocation of funds from the budget of Mykolaiv for the technical inspection of private houses affected by the war.

NikVesti also found out why the residents of some destroyed high-rise buildings refuse to dismantle them and what will happen to the houses further in the article «The problem of restoration: how Mykolaiv residents live, whose homes were destroyed by Russia».