The economic court on the recommendation of the Dnipropetrovsk regional prosecutor's office on March 30 decided to return 94.5% of the shares in PJSC Dniproavia (Dnipro) to state ownership, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has stated.

"Borys Filatov seems to have saved a lot. There won't be any need to build a new airport," he wrote on his Facebook page.

As reported, Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov appealed to the state leadership with the request to assist in the de-monopolization of the local airport.

"There is no airport in the city with several millions of residents. It belongs to a private owner, who abuses a monopoly position. This causes absolutely clear irritation among the citizens. I would ask the government to help the city in resolving the issue with the airport," he said at a meeting of the Regional Development Council in Kyiv.

Earlier, in February 2017, Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan drew attention to restriction of the market for airlines on the part of Dnipro International Airport.

"All the airports show growth, except for one in the city of Dnipro, where they decided to "play" a monopoly and limit the market," he noted.