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This expression was first used by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in July 2023, addressing local authorities first. In the second year of the Great War, many communities began to spend considerable money on landscaping, parking parks and even cosmetic streets. One of the most famous examples – the repair of Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street in Kiev – and gave rise to the term “translation of the pavement”.
In local communities not burdened with military expenditures, then “extra” money was found. Especially in those where military units are located: tax on personal income (from salaries) is a major article of filling local budgets.
In 2024, some of these “surplus” funds were transferred to the state budget and road tenders and the cost of improvement became much less. However, in 2025 the trend returned, and this applies to both local and central government.
The share of landscaping (parks, sports grounds) in total expenditures, though low, but increased by a few percent.
The share of road tenders again overtook the city infrastructure (heating, water) and energy (repair after attacks and protection), making 18% of all construction expenditures (a year ago, this figure was 13%). According to EP estimates, in the nine months of 2025, road contracts have already been signed by UAH 30 billion.
The largest tender was UAH 1.6 billion, which in October was received by Rostdorstroy for repair of roads of the Mykolaiv region (since the beginning of 2025 in the region – over UAH 3 billion). And in August Kyiv ordered For UAH 1.25 billion, the restructuring of the Kharkiv highway into the Group “Autoustra”.
In some places, the restoration of “large construction” is masked by road maintenance services, that is, the type of maintenance that involves patching pits, sprinkling with salt, cleaning of snow, installing road signs. Most tenders take place with this description or are called “current repair”.
IN September The State Audit Service has already made remarks to the organizers of tenders about improper classification of works, which assumed that most of the money would go for the removal of the old and laying a new asphalt cover, but the customer – the local recovery service – stood on its own.
Unlike road tenders, the share of military expenditures (mainly for the construction of fortifications) per year fell from 13% to 7%, and on the direction of energy, which provides for the restoration of objects destroyed by Russians and the construction of shelters around them – from 22% to 15%. The last numbers have several explanations.
Firstly – the cost of building buildings of the highest level of protection around energy facilities. In 2023 the government Developed Three -tier protection system.
The first level is simple protective structures (gabions and large sand bags) that are laid around the equipment to save it from debris.
The second level is more thorough shelters: there are concrete structures around the substations that can withstand the impact of drones or shrapnel-fugitive ammunition.
The third level is the maximum anti -reporting protection: special engineering solutions, designed to minimize the damage from the direct hit of the rocket into the object.
The first two levels were built in 2024, and the third was abandoned. Among the tenders about shelters, the largest orders in 2025 were only in Ukrhydroenergo.
“I have never heard of objects that protected three levels. This project was quickly closed as one that makes no sense. The cost of three -tier protection is three times higher than the cost of the equipment to be protected,” – said in September the director of the Energy Research Center Alexander Kharchenko.
Second, Western partners are not always visible in tenders in strengthening the power system, especially in the purchase of equipment. For example, since the beginning of the Great War, the EBRD has provided Ukraine over EUR 8.3 billion, a large part of which was spent on energy security and stability.
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This expression was first used by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in July 2023, addressing local authorities first. In the second year of the Great War, many communities began to spend considerable money on landscaping, parking parks and even cosmetic streets. One of the most famous examples – the repair of Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street in Kiev – and gave rise to the term “translation of the pavement”.
In local communities not burdened with military expenditures, then “extra” money was found. Especially in those where military units are located: tax on personal income (from salaries) is a major article of filling local budgets.
In 2024, some of these “surplus” funds were transferred to the state budget and road tenders and the cost of improvement became much less. However, in 2025 the trend returned, and this applies to both local and central government.
The share of landscaping (parks, sports grounds) in total expenditures, though low, but increased by a few percent.
The share of road tenders again overtook the city infrastructure (heating, water) and energy (repair after attacks and protection), making 18% of all construction expenditures (a year ago, this figure was 13%). According to EP estimates, in the nine months of 2025, road contracts have already been signed by UAH 30 billion.
The largest tender was UAH 1.6 billion, which in October was received by Rostdorstroy for repair of roads of the Mykolaiv region (since the beginning of 2025 in the region – over UAH 3 billion). And in August Kyiv ordered For UAH 1.25 billion, the restructuring of the Kharkiv highway into the Group “Autoustra”.
In some places, the restoration of “large construction” is masked by road maintenance services, that is, the type of maintenance that involves patching pits, sprinkling with salt, cleaning of snow, installing road signs. Most tenders take place with this description or are called “current repair”.
IN September The State Audit Service has already made remarks to the organizers of tenders about improper classification of works, which assumed that most of the money would go for the removal of the old and laying a new asphalt cover, but the customer – the local recovery service – stood on its own.
Unlike road tenders, the share of military expenditures (mainly for the construction of fortifications) per year fell from 13% to 7%, and on the direction of energy, which provides for the restoration of objects destroyed by Russians and the construction of shelters around them – from 22% to 15%. The last numbers have several explanations.
First is the cost of building the highest level of protection around energy facilities. In 2023 the government Developed Three -tier protection system.
The first level is simple protective structures (gabions and large sand bags) that are laid around the equipment to save it from debris.
The second level is more thorough shelters: there are concrete structures around the substations that can withstand the impact of drones or shrapnel-fugitive ammunition.
The third level is the maximum anti -reporting protection: special engineering solutions, designed to minimize the damage from the direct hit of the rocket into the object.
The first two levels were built in 2024, and the third was abandoned. Among the tenders about shelters, the largest orders in 2025 were only in Ukrhydroenergo.
“I have never heard of objects that protected three levels. This project was quickly closed as one that makes no sense. The cost of three -tier protection is three times higher than the cost of the equipment to be protected,” – said in September the director of the Energy Research Center Alexander Kharchenko.
Second, Western partners are not always visible in tenders in strengthening the power system, especially in the purchase of equipment. For example, since the beginning of the Great War, the EBRD has provided Ukraine over EUR 8.3 billion, a large part of which was spent on energy security and stability.