Fortifications to be transferred to management of Defense Ministry within month – Shmyhal
Fortifications equipped last year at public expense will be transferred to the management of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine within a month, said Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal.
"We are modernizing the mechanism for receiving, recording and servicing fortifications in frontline areas. Last year, 3,000 defensive points were equipped both in threatening directions and in places where active hostilities are not currently underway. For this, the state allocated UAH 46.2 billion, which it sent to regional military administrations and the Recovery Agency," he wrote on Telegram on Tuesday.
According to him, earlier that day the Cabinet of Ministers adopted a resolution according to which these fortifications within a month "should be transferred to the sphere of management of the Ministry of Defense and assigned to balance holders."
As representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnychuk reported on Telegram, at a government meeting on Tuesday, January 21, amendments were made to the Regulation on the procedure for transferring objects of state ownership and the Procedure for submitting and considering proposals for the transfer of objects from municipal to state ownership and the formation and work of the commission on the transfer of objects to state ownership, approved by Cabinet of Ministers Resolution of September 21, 1998 No. 1482 on the transfer of objects of state and municipal ownership, in terms of not extending the effect of their provisions to the transfer of military engineering and fortification structures.
Also, according to Melnychuk, amendments have been made to Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 514 of 07.05.2024 on approval of the Procedure for the acceptance, maintenance, servicing and accounting of military engineering and fortification structures. "The Procedure for the transfer, acceptance, maintenance, servicing and operational accounting of military engineering and fortification structures has been set out in a new edition, which improves the mechanism for the acceptance, accounting and maintenance of military engineering and fortification structures by balance holders, the construction of which was carried out by state customers and their transfer, if necessary, for temporary use to units of the defense forces," Melnychuk said.