€3,083 million for Mykolaiv and over €40 million for the region: agreements signed with NEFCO

Mykolaiv will receive €3,083 mln in grant funds for the energy-efficient modernization of a kindergarten and to increase the energy resilience of the city’s electric transport. Separately, more than €40 mln in grants for green recovery are planned to be attracted for communities in Mykolaiv Oblast.

The new agreements were announced on 26 June 2026 by the Mykolaiv City Council and the head of the Mykolaiv RMA, Vitalii Kim.

During the Ukraine Recovery Conference in the Polish city of Gdańsk, mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych signed a grant agreement with the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation, NEFCO.

The project will be implemented with the support of the Government of Denmark, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Impact Fund Denmark.

For Mykolaiv, €3,083 mln in grant funds is envisaged. About €300 thousand is expected to be co-financing from the city budget.

Within the project, an energy-efficient modernization of one of the kindergartens is planned.

A set of measures is also envisaged to increase the energy resilience of the municipal enterprise “Mykolaivelectrotrans”. The company is to receive a new traction substation, a solar power plant and an energy storage system.

Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych thanked the partners for their support of the city.

“We thank NEFCO, the Government of Denmark, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Impact Fund Denmark for their systematic support of Mykolaiv”.

On the same day the head of the Mykolaiv RMA, Vitalii Kim, announced the signing of a memorandum of cooperation between the regional military administration and NEFCO.

According to him, this is the first agreement of this format in Ukraine between a region and the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation.

Within the cooperation, more than €40 mln in grant funds from Denmark and Sweden are planned to be attracted for Mykolaiv Oblast.

The money is to be directed to projects on energy efficiency, renewable energy, modernization of water and heat supply systems, street lighting and other important directions in the communities of the region.

Head of the Mykolaiv RMA Vitalii Kim thanked the international partners for their cooperation.

“I thank our international partners for their trust. We continue to work so that the recovery of Mykolaiv Oblast is modern and high-quality”.

Earlier we wrote:

• Kim, Sienkevych and community mayors went to Poland to seek billions for recovery
• In Korabelnyi they are replacing water networks with Denmark’s money: one site is already 87% ready
• Sienkevych, as a Doctor of Economic Sciences, was selling a risky Mykolaiv to investors
• Not just the “city of shipbuilders”: Mykolaiv should become a center of the blue economy
• They went, talked — sat down and cried: what did the Mykolaiv delegation actually bring back from Denmark?