As of 26 December 2025, 97 per cent of local budgets had been approved in Ukraine. This has created the conditions for stable funding for education, healthcare, social protection, and other areas of community life in 2026.

According to the Ministry of Finance, 1,542 out of 1,597 local budgets have been approved so far, accounting for 97 per cent of the total. Specifically, the budgets of 24 regions, the city of Kyiv, 113 districts, 1,392 communities and 12 districts in cities have been approved. The process of approving individual budgets is ongoing.

‘An approved local budget means timely payments to teachers and medical workers, uninterrupted operation of public utility companies, and enables communities to plan their development from the beginning of the year. It is therefore important to speed up the approval of budgets in communities where this process is still ongoing, to ensure stable and predictable financial operations in 2026,’ said Dmytro Samonenko, Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine.

Local budgets have already been fully approved in the Volyn, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Kharkiv, and Chernivtsi regions.

We would like to remind you that, according to Article 77 of the Budget Code of Ukraine, local budgets must be approved by 25 December in the year before the planned year begins. To ensure that schools, hospitals and other budgetary institutions can continue to operate without interruption, it is crucial that communities complete budgetary procedures as quickly as possible.