Almost one in three of Sienkevych's orders is missing from the city council's website — study

During the first half of 2026, almost every third order of the mayor Oleksandr Senkevych could not be found on the official website of the Mykolaiv City Council. This is stated in an analytical piece by the Center for Public Investigations, published on 26 July 2026.

Researchers collected all of Senkevych’s orders that were available on the city council’s website for January–June 2026.

Key figures of the study:

• 309 — the last order number for the first half of 2026;
• 214 documents were published on the city council website;
• 95 orders, or 30.7%, are missing in the corresponding numbering range;
• No. 2 at the beginning of January to No. 303 at the end of June;
• 213 documents had a stated publication date;
• 187 orders, or 87.8%, were published within the time limit set by law — within five working days;
• 26 documents, or 12.2%, appeared with delays;
• the typical delay was one working day, the average — 2.3 working days;
• Order No. 56 of 6 February was published after 35 working days;
• Document No. 50 of 3 February — after 26 working days;
• Order No. 87-r of 27 February does not have a publication date listed at all;
• no cases of duplicate numbers or backdating of documents were found among the published acts.

For comparison, in Odesa during the same period 19 of 414 orders, or 4.6%, were not published. The share of missing documents in Mykolaiv turned out to be almost seven times higher.

At the same time, the numbering of the published orders by Senkevych increased in accordance with the dates of their signing. Researchers did not find any cases where a document with a higher number was assigned an earlier date. No duplication of numbers was recorded either.

Analysts separately drew attention to Order No. 87-r of 27 February 2026 regarding the dismantling of a temporary structure. Its page has no publication date mark, so it is impossible to determine whether the city council complied with the legal deadline.

Also, the city council’s website lacks a separate section and numbering series for the mayor’s personnel orders. Because of this, it is impossible to determine how many such documents were issued over six months and what portion of them could have been published.

The CPI noted that some of the missing numbers could theoretically relate to documents containing personal data or information with restricted access. However, the city council website does not even contain marks indicating the existence of such orders, so it is impossible to verify the reasons for the gaps. Analysts recommended publishing the missing documents or explaining why they are not being published, eliminating prolonged delays, and introducing a separate registry for personnel orders.

Previously we wrote:

• “Transparent” competition without open documentation: Mykolaiv once again falls into a garbage scandal
• Almost half a million for medals: Senkevych awarded bonuses to 114 Mykolaiv athletes
• Former opponent of Senkevych, Zadyrko, became an adviser on veterans’ affairs and families of the deceased and the captured
• Senkevych dreams of an “Oscar for publicity”, but hides staff meetings from journalists
• The mayor of Mykolaiv urgently “freezes” budget expenditures: the city does not have enough money even for salaries