Сергій Сухомлин

The Infrastructure Restoration and Development Service in the Ivano-Frankivsk region failed to coordinate with Kyiv a tender for designing a road to Bukovel, and its head will be dismissed, according to Serhiy Sukhomlin, head of the State Agency for Reconstruction and Infrastructure Development.

"Indeed, the service announced a tender to design a road within the Small Carpathian Ring. Whether such a project was appropriate during wartime, with a limited budget, is another question. Local communities had previously allocated funds and prepared a feasibility study, after which the service moved ahead with the tender. However, it did not coordinate this design tender with the agency, so today the head of the service is submitting a letter of resignation," Sukhomlin said.

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He added that another tender — for repairs on the T-09-06 road to the village of Bystrytsia in the Nadvirna district — was justified because the road is in extremely poor condition and includes several emergency bridges. Still, no funds for repairs were allocated in the state budget.

"This road does not lead to Bukovel, so there is no ‘zrada’ here," he said. Zrada is a Ukrainian term literally meaning "betrayal," often used in a meme-like context to describe something bad.

Source: Serhiy Sukhomlin / Facebook
  • On 3 December, the Ivano-Frankivsk regional service announced a tender for developing project documentation for a new highway from Bystrytsia to Yablunytsia via Polianytsia, where the Bukovel resort is located. The project, estimated at UAH 6.6 billion, would shorten the route from Ivano-Frankivsk by providing a northwestern access point to the resort.
  • Earlier, the regional recovery service signed a UAH 2.1 billion contract with PBS LLC for a major overhaul of the existing Ivano-Frankivsk–Nadvirna road along a 23-kilometer section leading to Bystrytsia.