Evgeniya Genova, communications advisor of the Odesa Local Government Development Centre, established with the support of the U-LEAD with Europe programme and MinRegion of Ukraine, told in a live broadcast of the "Spot on" programme (Odesa branch of PJSC National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine) about the tendency of hromadas’ amalgamation in the Odesa Oblast as evidenced by the increase in the number of AHs from 12 to 23, the main priorities of the new amalgamated hromadas and implementation of the decentralisation reform in the oblast compared to other regions of the state: