Ukrainian Prime Minister and Regions Party leader Mykola Azarov has stressed the need to intensify the reconstruction of parks and the construction of sports grounds in Ukrainian cities.

"We need to reconstruct parks so that our cities gradually become beautiful cities," he said in an interview with Mykolaiv Regional Television and Radio Company in Mykolaiv on Friday.

The prime minister also said that the government was returning to the practice of building a great number of sports grounds in cities.