The Ukrainian government is summarizing the results of its first 100 days in office. During this time, the team at the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development has implemented a number of key decisions aimed at supporting frontline regions, developing the economy, modernizing infrastructure, and restoring housing.
Deputy Prime Minister for the Restoration of Ukraine – Minister of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine Oleksiy Kuleba spoke about the key results achieved during this time.
“Over these 100 days, our team has launched support tools for people in frontline territories, strengthened the economic activity of communities, and continues to scale up the restoration of housing, infrastructure, and the social sphere. The government is working to ensure that every community feels protected and has opportunities for development even in wartime.
It is important that we are constantly working to ensure a stable winter, despite the enemy’s attempts to disrupt the heating season. We are creating reserves, modernizing equipment, and coordinating with all responsible ministries, services, local governments, and regions.
Protecting critical infrastructure is a constant priority. We are strengthening the defense of energy facilities, transport hubs, and water and heat supply systems. We are overcoming challenges together with communities,” Oleksiy Kuleba emphasized.
A program to support frontline regions has been launched.
People living in areas close to the combat zone remain the focus of state policy. To this end, a program has been launched to support residents, local businesses, and the social sphere.
It covers 238 communities with a population of 6.6 million people. Of these, 3.7 million are the most vulnerable categories of the population.
As part of the program, the eOselyu program for internally displaced persons has been scaled up. The mechanism provides for reimbursement of 70% of the initial mortgage payment (with an advance payment of no more than 30% of the cost of housing), 70% compensation for monthly payments during the first year of the loan (but not more than UAH 150,000 of the total annual payment), and UAH 40,000 to cover related expenses when applying for a mortgage, such as commissions, fees, and insurance payments.
Almost 500 families have already applied for mortgages.
Residents of frontline areas have been receiving additional funds to pay for electricity since October 1. The funds are automatically credited together with subsidies and benefits and are calculated at a rate of 100 kWh per person (but not more than 300 kWh per family).
Households also received UAH 19,400 in assistance to purchase solid fuel for the winter.
About 700,000 students in frontline regions receive free meals at school. And 25,000 teachers received a bonus of UAH 4,000.
Additional funding has been allocated to universities located near the front line — UAH 330 million has been allocated to universities in the Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv regions.
Twenty universities affected by the Russian Federation’s armed aggression have received UAH 264.6 million in funding for reconstruction. This will restore the educational process for 142,000 students and nearly 29,000 higher education institution employees.
The government has increased support for medical facilities operating in dangerous conditions. Frontline hospitals will receive increased payments for each employee. It remains essential that the additional funds are actually directed towards increasing the salaries of medical workers.
The program also covers support for local businesses. Critically important enterprises located and operating in frontline territories can reserve 100% of their employees who are subject to military service. This makes it possible to support businesses that continue to operate in the most difficult conditions.
Farmers will receive a budget subsidy of UAH 1,000 per hectare of sown land. Grant programs have also been launched for the creation and development of horticulture, berry growing, viticulture, and greenhouse farming — up to UAH 400,000 per hectare, regardless of the type of crop.
A mechanism for compensating military risks for businesses in frontline communities was recently launched. Businesses in high-risk areas will be able to receive up to UAH 10 million in compensation for property damaged or destroyed as a result of attacks.
The construction of the Mykolaiv water pipeline has been completed.
For the first time since 2022, Mykolaiv has received a centralized supply of fresh water.
Three years ago, the Russians blew up a key water pipeline in the Mykolaiv region, leaving more than half a million residents without a constant water supply. In less than a year, we built a new water pipeline—an extremely complex infrastructure project. Today, fresh water is already reaching consumers.
Also, thanks to high-quality expertise, the State Agency for the Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine reduced the cost of the project from UAH 8.7 billion to UAH 6.3 billion, which made it possible to allocate these funds to the construction of water pipelines in other regions.
The first Eurotrack was completed and new routes to European countries were opened.
For the first time in modern Ukrainian history, we built 22 km of 1435 mm standard gauge European gauge railway from scratch between Chop and Uzhhorod. Uzhhorod became the first regional center with direct rail links to European Union countries. Since September, trains have been running to Bratislava, Košice, Budapest, and Vienna.
A new route between Kyiv and Bucharest has also been launched. The new train runs daily on the Kyiv-Bucharest route via Vinnytsia, Zhmerynka, and Mohyliv-Podilskyi. Border control will take place in the cities of Velcinets and Ungheni. The train arrives at the main station of the Romanian capital, Gara de Nord.
Despite shelling and targeted strikes by the Russian Federation, Ukrzaliznytsia transported 8 million passengers in 100 days and evacuated 4,500 passengers from frontline communities.
In total, it made more than 4,000 trips to dangerous regions.
The first public-private project in the port of Chornomorsk has been launched.
This is the largest investment project in the port sector since independence. It includes the port’s First and Container Terminals.
The project will generate more than $1.1 billion in revenue for the budget over 40 years and create more than a thousand jobs with guarantees for people.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in investments will go toward modernizing berths and equipment.
For the community of Chornomorsk, the project brings stability and new opportunities. For the state, it restores container transportation. In three years, transshipment could grow to 250,000 TEU per year, and then return to its pre-war level of over half a million TEU. The port will operate at the level of leading European hubs.
A competition commission is already at work, and documentation is being prepared with the participation of the IFC, EBRD, and leading consultants. The competition will be announced in early November.
The “transport visa-free regime” with the EU has been extended until March 2027.
This is one of the most important events for the freight transport and export sector in Ukraine by road.
This means that Ukrainian and European carriers will continue to be able to operate without special permits for bilateral and transit flights. In this way, we maintain the stability of exports, which brings billions of hryvnia to the budget, and guarantee the unhindered import of critically important goods.
During the period of the “transport visa-free regime,” road exports and imports have grown by tens of percent. This is a direct result of our economy gaining new opportunities and businesses gaining the freedom to work with EU countries. The share of trade between Ukraine and the EU by road transport has grown by almost 55%.
The e-Restoration program has been scaled up.
In 100 days, more than 15,000 families received compensation and certificates for damaged or destroyed housing. Over the entire period of the program, more than 143,000 families received compensation for repairs or the purchase of new homes, totaling nearly UAH 50 billion.
We launched eVidnovlennia for IDPs from temporarily occupied territories. In the first stage, support will be provided to families with a combatant or a person with a war-related disability. They will receive housing vouchers worth UAH 2 million.
This is the start of the program, and work is already underway with international partners to attract additional resources so that all families from TOT receive compensation.
The first applications can be submitted starting December 1.
Remote surveys in areas of active and potential combat operations have been improved. Commissions can now use satellite images provided by the State Space Agency of Ukraine to confirm the destruction of buildings.
The technical requirements for photo and video materials serving as evidence of destruction due to Russian aggression have also been simplified.
These updates expand the tools available to specialists and make it possible to record damage even when access to damaged housing remains dangerous or completely blocked.
We are developing restoration projects.
We have completed a competition for funding restoration projects in communities from the State Regional Development Fund. Forty-eight projects worth UAH 1 billion have been selected. Most of them involve the construction of shelters and the reconstruction of healthcare facilities, schools, and kindergartens.
Most of the projects are in communities in the Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, and Lviv regions.
We have restored 191 damaged apartment buildings under the Energy Efficiency Fund’s “Restore Your Home” program. This means that approximately 18,000 families have returned to their homes.
A new “green” renovation program for 107 apartment buildings has been launched under the same program.
A program to provide free solar panels for schools worth €16.5 million has also been launched.
A competition among communities has been launched as part of the “Recovery Program III” project.
Communities can receive funds for the implementation of development projects. The priority is the construction of shelters, housing for IDPs, the creation of heating, water supply, and sewage systems and distributed generation networks, the construction of medical and educational facilities, the creation of barrier-free routes, factory kitchens, and security centers.
The budget is €100 million, provided by the European Investment Bank.
Comprehensive community recovery is ongoing. This is an approach that is being developed for the whole country: to restore not only individual objects, but entire environments where it is comfortable to live, work, and develop.
One example of comprehensive restoration is the village of Borodianka, where 825 residential buildings were damaged. More than 600 buildings have already been restored, and people are returning to their homes.
We are installing solar panels on the rebuilt high-rise buildings, which make the buildings partially self-sufficient, implementing the Barrier-Free Movement project, launching electronic ticketing, and testing 5G coverage.
Memorialization is also part of the recovery—spaces are appearing in the town that preserve the memory of the events of 2022 and the people who died during the occupation.
In October, construction began on two new high-rise buildings to replace those destroyed by the enemy. They are being built according to modern principles: energy-efficient, with shelters and barrier-free solutions.
Ten kilometers of water supply and sewage networks will also be replaced. After the renovation, they will operate with new meters that will allow consumption to be tracked online.
Comprehensive restoration is also underway in Posad-Pokrovskyi in the Kherson region and Yagidne in the Chernihiv region.