According to Ivan Lukeria, expert on decentralisation, the Prime Minister’s advisor, as of March 3, 23 oblast state administrations – all, except for the Dnipropetrovsk oblast state administration – have submitted their draft perspective plans, covering all the territory of the oblast, to the Cabinet of Ministers.

‘Under the perspective plans approximately 1400 hromadas are supposed to be formed. The Dnipropetrovsk oblast is making the latest arrangements for the plan to be submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. The procedure of the plans approval is currently ongoing. It was preceded by a complicated process of the plans' development and agreement. But there is a result’, claimed Ivan Lukeria.