Money for tourism and landscaping when the Russian Federation is 3 km from the city: what is wrong with the Budget of Pokrovsk for 2025

According to Oleg Popenko, the head of consumers of consumers of utilities, the money is allocated to the following expenditures: "And despite the fact that, according to Deepstate, the Russians remained 3 km to the city," Oleg Popenko stressed. In turn, the Ukrainian serviceman Stanislav Bunyatov with the Osman call sign noted that no one will invest in the destroyed city, because they will simply be stolen.

"Later, these funds will build houses for the great -grandchildren of the residents of Pokrovsk, who went to Switzerland," Osman emphasized. Director of the Institute of Socio-Economic Transformation, Candidate of Economic Sciences Ilya Neskhodovsky told focus that the direction of use of funds from the local budget is determined by deputies of local authorities.

"The question is how appropriate, justified and anti -corruption, but they have the right to make such a decision under the current Ukrainian legislation," Neskhodovsky said. According to the economist Boris Kushniruk, the decision to put expenditures in the budget is the responsibility of local authorities, but there is a nuance.

"Given that the military administration is managing it, in general, it is a question to the state power, to the President's office, because they appoint them, and to the Ministry of Finance. I have previously said and discussed on this topic that everything should be concentrated during the war to meet the needs of the military, " - said in conversation with focus Kushniruk.

He considers it absurd that someone lays funds for improvement in conditions when there is not enough money for the needs of the army. "It is not even about salaries, but about the purchase of everything - ribs, drones, repair of equipment, etc. Therefore, this question is undoubtedly to the authorities - how can it be? Unfortunately, there are many such examples, including In fact, the area is in the area, ”the economist said.

Neskhodovsky stressed that central authorities have no right to interfere with the decisions of local authorities. However, local communities have the opportunity to express their position to the deputies in order to vote in order to cancel the appropriate decision. Moreover, the economist is convinced that the Cabinet of Ministers would have to determine the goals that can be spent from local budgets and reduce the percentage of the total budget that can be used for landscaping, or at all.

"Whereas the decisions can be changed exclusively by the deputies themselves - to amend the relevant budget," Neskhodovsky explained. He is convinced that such cases are the fault of the Cabinet of Ministers, which despite the priority directions of use of funds in local budgets at the beginning of a full -scale invasion, did not limit their use.

"That is why, during 2023 - 2024, we saw such unjustified costs, when the funds that could be used more rationally were directed, for example, to translate pavement, planting flowers, trees, etc. ," the expert summed up. Kushniruk noted that the military administrations that determine the local budget are subordinate to the President. However, he cannot be engaged in Pokrovsk, relatively speaking, because it is not his level.

Instead, according to the economist, there should be a mechanism that would make it impossible to expend the money from the local budget for similar things during the war. "It is possible that the government should order that in addition to the most necessary goals related to ensuring the physical functioning of these settlements, they cannot be spent on money," Boris Kushniruk added.