In current conditions, there is no question of building new highways — it would be enough to patch up the existing ones. However, the road industry has prepared in advance, and a significant part of Ukrainian roads is now maintained at the expense of regional treasuries. For these "directions," 2.4 billion UAH was transferred from the state budget to local authorities. How these funds will be distributed and spent locally — one can only guess.
Of the total amount of 15 billion UAH, the remainder — over 3 billion UAH — will be directed by Ukravtodor to restore priority sections: Kyiv – Chop; Kherson – Dzhankoy – Simferopol; Vinnytsia – Uman – Znamianka; Zhytomyr – Chernivtsi; Sumy – Krasnopillia – Bohodukhiv, Kyiv – Kharkiv – Dovzhanskyi; Znamianka – Dnipropetrovsk; Dnipropetrovsk – Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk – Donetsk – Luhansk.
Despite the dire situation, the department does not abandon hope of starting long-planned projects this year: the bridge over the Dnipro in Zaporizhzhia, as well as bypass roads around Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, and Sevastopol. Ukravtodor also hopes to bring to completion such highways as M-03 Kyiv – Kharkiv – Dovzhanskyi, M-04 Znamianka – Luhansk – Izvaryne, and M-05 Kyiv – Odesa.
To implement these plans, one of three things is needed: additional allocations from the treasury, another loan, or attracting private investors. So far, none of these paths inspires much optimism.
