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Ukraine Earmarks 3 Billion UAH From Reserve for Pothole Repairs on Frontline and High‑Traffic Roads

The emergency program supports defense logistics, medical evacuation, basic road safety under a severe funding shortfall.

Overview

  • Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said the reserve‑fund money will finance pothole work on state roads with heavy traffic and in frontline regions after a meeting with Vice Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba and Recovery Agency head Serhiy Sukhomlyn.
  • Officials stressed the works are operational safety fixes rather than capital reconstruction, with completion targeted by June 1.
  • Pothole repairs have already started on international and national highways, including in combat‑adjacent areas.
  • On March 2 the government reported current surface repairs covering more than 3.5 million square meters had begun.
  • The Recovery Agency cites a structural gap of 51.3 billion UAH in needs versus roughly 4.6 billion UAH provided, as NABU and SAP pursue corruption cases linked to past road contracts, including a suspected 392 million UAH scheme in Dnipropetrovsk region.