Kyiv to raise public transport fares after UAH 8 billion withdrawn from capital budget - Honcharenko

Kyiv to raise public transport fares after UAH 8 billion withdrawn from capital budget by Verkhovna Rada. Verkhovna Rada member from European Solidarity faction Oleksii Honcharenko announced this on his Telegram channel, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

"In Kyiv, public transport fares will increase because the Office has withdrawn UAH 8 billion for bonuses to officials. Here is a document from the Finance Department of the Kyiv City State Administration, which clearly states: 8 billion should have gone, among other things, to transport, roads, schools, hospitals. This money was stolen by Bankova from Kyiv residents. Kyiv cannot support the old fares, because the budget hole created by "Servants" is huge," the MP said.

Honcharenko published a document from the Finance Department of the Kyiv City State Administration stating that the shortfall in Kyiv budget revenues of UAH 8 billion in 2025 will result in risks for financing key areas of the city economy, in particular, maintaining tariffs for passenger transportation in urban passenger transport at the pre-war level.

Director of the Finance Department of the Kyiv City State Administration Volodymyr Repik asks Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko to instruct the Department of Transport Infrastructure and the Department of Economy and Investment to study the possibility of establishing a tariff model in urban transport for the medium term and reviewing the established tariffs for passenger transportation services in urban passenger transport, taking into account the changes that have occurred since 2020.

Currently, in Kyiv, the cost of travel in municipal transport (bus, tram, trolleybus, metro, funicular) is UAH 8 per trip. Tariffs in Kyiv were last revised in 2020.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on August 20, the Verkhovna Rada adopted amendments to the state budget for 2025, which provide, in particular, for the withdrawal of UAH 8 billion of bank profit tax from the Kyiv budget and their transfer to the general fund of the state budget.

Klitschko stated that the Verkhovna Rada's decision to withdraw UAH 8 billion from the Kyiv budget, which the capital planned to allocate to help the military, additional payments to state employees, and compensation for travel costs, was adopted in violation of the law and is aimed at weakening self-government.