Ukrainian cabinet to allocate UAH 7.2 b for road repairs and construction

The Ukrainian government plans to allocate UAH 7.2 billion for the construction and repair of roads, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.

"Today we'll consider and approve a list of projects of road construction, reconstruction, overhaul and repair of roads of general use of state and local importance, and the size of financing in 2013 for credits taken under government guarantees, thanks to which UAH 7.2 billion will be spent on some important road infrastructure all over the country," he said, opening a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

He said that some funds would be spent on building a bridge over the Dnipro River in Zaporizhia, and some on the reconstruction of the Kyiv-Kovel-Yahodyn highway, the reconstruction of the Stryi-Ternopil-Kirovohrad-Znamianka highway, and on the Sevastopol bypass.