Due to the central government's withdrawal of UAH 8 billion from the capital's budget, the Kyiv City Council will be forced to consider increasing fares for public transport. Infrastructure projects expert Anna Minyukova wrote about this on her Facebook page.
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“One of the issues at the next session of the Kyiv City Council will be increasing the cost of public transport. Why? Because the central government took 8 billion hryvnias from the Kyiv budget. And this money was taken not from Klitschko, but from every resident of the capital. As a result, people will inevitably feel it,” wrote Anna Minyukova.
According to her, the current fares for the community were maintained through compensation from the city budget, but due to the authorities' decisions, these subsidies were under threat.
“Objectively, the current cost of travel in Kyiv has long been out of market value. According to calculations, the cost of one trip in municipal ground transport is 22.62 hryvnias, not 8 hryvnias, as it is now. For comparison, travel in municipal transport in Lviv costs 25 hryvnias, in Zaporizhia 15 hryvnias, and in Dnipro 10 hryvnias. By the decision of the parliament, in particular, by the votes of majority deputies from Kyiv, these subsidies were under threat,” Anna Minyukova emphasized.
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As the expert noted, instead of fighting corruption and restoring order in Ukrzaliznytsia, the authorities are trying to solve their mistakes at the expense of Kyiv residents.
“Instead of comprehensively solving the problems of Ukrzaliznytsia, for whose benefit this money was withdrawn: fighting corruption (which current deputies of the Verkhovna Rada also suspect), resolving the issues with the company's losses with high salaries of the supervisory board and management, and establishing management of its own assets, the presidential government is trying to solve its own miscalculations at the expense of the people of Kyiv,” noted Hanna Minyukova.
She emphasized that the funds withdrawn from Kyiv from the military tax on individual income last year, instead of funding the Ministry of Defense, the State Special Communications Service, and the Ministry of Strategic Industry, remained unspent in the accounts.
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“And it would be good if this resource were really directed to extremely necessary things. Because where did the funds withdrawn from the military personal income tax last year go? The funds withdrawn from local budgets and redirected to the state budget were supposed to go to finance the Ministry of Defense, the State Service for Special Communications, and the Ministry of Strategic Industry. However, tens of billions of hryvnias earmarked for the purchase of weapons remained unspent in the accounts, and the army did not receive the necessary weapons on time, while the leadership of the departments was suspected of corruption,” the expert emphasized.
As MP Oleksiy Honcharenko previously stated, in 2025, Kyiv residents will have to pay more for travel because the central government has withdrawn 8 billion hryvnias from the city budget for Ukrzaliznytsia.
