The Executive Committee has approved the demolition of two more buildings in Mykolaiv that were damaged by shelling

Builders have begun demolishing the building at 43 Pogranichna Street in Mykolaiv; photo: ‘NikVesti’

In Mykolaiv, two more buildings damaged by Russian shelling are being partially demolished. These are a residential building and an administrative building, which have been deemed potentially hazardous.

The relevant decision was adopted by the executive committee of Mykolaiv City Council at a meeting today, 13 May, NikVesti reports.

According to the document, six flats in the residential building at 31 Oleksii Vadaturskyi Street are to be demolished and cleared: №1, №2, №3, №4, №5 and №14. This building was damaged during the shelling of central Mykolaiv on the night of 22 January 2025.

At the same time, plans are in place to dismantle potentially hazardous sections of block №2 of the administrative building at 24 Vadym Blahovisnyi Street. It is located near the shell-damaged building of the Vasyl Sukhomlynsky Mykolaiv National University.

The city authorities are currently in talks regarding the demolition of this building with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), said Ihor Nabatov, Deputy Director of the City Council’s Department of Housing and Communal Services.

«Negotiations are underway with the UNDP regarding this property to include it in the contract that is about to be launched for demolition work in Mykolaiv,» he said.

It is worth noting that the UNDP is to carry out the partial demolition of the «Mykolaiv» hotel, a residential building at 54 Krylova Street, and a residential building at 1 Obraztsova Street.

Read also the articles by NikVesti:

• «Three months for a five-storey building: how ruined houses are being demolished in Mykolaiv»;
• «Waste of war: is the plant in Mykolaiv keeping up with the scale of the destruction?»

Processing demolition waste in Mykolaiv

The construction waste recycling plant in Mykolaiv began operations in the spring of 2025. The project was implemented with the support of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which provided specialised equipment, whilst the site for the plant was developed using the city budget.

The plant’s capacity allows it to process around 12,000 tonnes of such waste per month, and the resulting material is intended for use in road repairs.

By the end of 2024 alone, around 120,000 tonnes of construction waste had accumulated in Mykolaiv. As of January 2025, the plant had processed 4,500 tonnes of demolition waste into building materials.

In a comment to NikVesti, Deputy Mayor Serhii Korenev stated that the construction waste recycling plant in Mykolaiv is planned to be used to serve the needs of two further regions: Kherson region and part of Kirovohrad region.

At the same time, communities wishing to use the services of the construction waste recycling plant following the destruction are being offered two options for cooperation. Under the first option, they can hand over all waste for recycling at a lower cost; under the second, they can receive the recycled material back, though this option will be more expensive.

As of February 2026, 4.6 million tonnes of waste from the destruction had already accumulated in the Mykolaiv region.