MP Pasichnyi proposes allocating funds from the state budget to complete the reconstruction of Lyceum №60 in Varvarivka

The unfinished new wing of Lyceum №60 in Varvarivka, September 2025, photo: «NikVesti»

Oleksandr Pasichnyi, a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament and a member of the parliamentary committee on budgetary matters, has submitted proposals to the 2027 state budget to secure funding for the completion of the reconstruction of Lyceum №60 in Varvarivka.

The MP announced this in a comment to a correspondent from NikVesti.

As is known, construction of the school was suspended back in autumn 2025 due to a lack of funds. According to the Ministry of Regional Development, 62.5 million hryvnias are required to complete the work.

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According to the MP, the reconstruction of the school was funded from the State Fund for the Elimination of the Consequences of Armed Aggression. However, the funds to continue the work have run out, and as of August 2026, no new funding had been allocated.

The MP has submitted a request to the government regarding the further reconstruction of Lyceum №60 and Gymnasium №2, where work also remains unfinished. In particular, he asked for clarification on when the state plans to allocate funds and what measures it will take to preserve the parts that have already been built.

According to the Ministry of Regional Development, a total of 12 educational and healthcare facilities across Ukraine remain unfinished; these were being restored using funds from the Fund for the Elimination of the Consequences of Armed Aggression. Their total cost amounts to 1.32 billion hryvnias.

Four of these facilities are located in the Mykolaiv region. Their total cost is 632.7 million hryvnias.

To complete the work already started, Oleksandr Pasichnyi proposed two possible sources of funding within the 2027 state budget. The first is to create a separate grant for local budgets to complete such projects. The second is to allocate 1.32 billion hryvnias from the State Fund for Regional Development, primarily to unfinished educational and healthcare facilities that were previously funded from the Fund for the Elimination of the Consequences of Armed Aggression.

According to the MP, the relevant proposals have already been submitted to the draft state budget for 2027. They are yet to be considered, so no decision on the allocation of funds has been made as yet.

«These proposals will be considered in strict accordance with the provisions of Ukraine’s budgetary legislation,» added the MP.

Reconstruction project for Lyceum №60 in Varvarivka, photo NikVesti provided by the Department of Architecture and Capital Construction of the Regional Military Administration

Reconstruction project for Lyceum №60 in Varvarivka, photo NikVesti provided by the Department of Architecture and Capital Construction of the Regional Military Administration

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 adjacent children’s playground was also damaged.

In December 2023, the Regional Military Administration’s Department of Urban Planning 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 school building 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 utility 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 utility rooms. And on the third floor: 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.