Potholes, goodbye? Mykolaiv region has surged into the top regions for road repairs
They promise the roads will be passable by June 1: will the pace be enough to prevent them from "washing out" again?
As reported 12 April 2026 by the Minister for the Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine, Oleksii Kuleba, more than 1 000 specialists working in nearly 100 crews are currently operating on the country’s largest and most important highways. Since the beginning of the year, the state has already repaired over 3.5 million sq. m of road surface, and in just one day the pace of work exceeded 86.4 thousand sq. m.
Among the regions currently showing the highest rates are
- Kirovohrad region with an indicator of 82%,
- Mykolaiv region — 69.3%
- Rivne region — 57.6%.
Thus, the Mykolaiv region is now among the regions where pavement restoration on key roads is progressing the fastest.
At the national level, significant volumes of work have already been carried out on international routes, in particular on the highways
- M-05 Kyiv — Odesa,
- M-14 Odesa — Melitopol — Novoazovsk,
- M-03 Kyiv — Kharkiv — Dovzhanskyi,
- M-07 Kyiv — Kovel — Yahodyn,
- M-30 Stryi — Uman — Dnipro — Izvaryne
- M-19 Domanove — Kovel — Chernivtsi — Terebleche.
After the weather stabilizes, the daily pace of work is planned to be raised to 200 thousand sq. m per day.
For the Mykolaiv region this issue is particularly acute, since as early as the beginning of March the region launched repairs of key routes to Dnipro, Kropyvnytskyi and Odesa, and in Mykolaiv itself road works after winter began as one of the sharpest seasonal challenges. Now the region already figures among the leaders in restoration pace, which directly affects logistics, safety, and people’s daily mobility.
Earlier we wrote:
- Now no excuses: AI “flagged” all the potholes: Mykolaiv was the first in Ukraine to scan the roads
- Government allocates UAH 3 billion for urgent repair of the busiest roads by summer
- Mykolaiv region has started repairing key routes to Dnipro, Kropyvnytskyi and Odesa, – Kim
- Drivers, brace yourselves: road repairs have started in Mykolaiv
- Pothole road repairs have been launched in Mykolaiv

