The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted resolution No. 3650 on the creation and liquidation of districts, which is reforming the sub-regional level of the administrative and territorial structure of Ukraine and instead of the existing 490 districts, some 136 enlarged ones are being created.
According to a correspondent of Interfax-Ukraine, some 238 members of parliament voted for the draft resolution on July 17.
According to the resolution, the existing 490 districts are liquidated and some 136 districts are formed in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the regions of Ukraine (17 of which are in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions). The document stipulates that the boundaries of districts are established along the outer border of the territories of rural, settlement, urban territorial communities that are part of the relevant district.
The elections of deputies of district councils liquidated in accordance with the adoption of this resolution will not be held. The resolution provides that the liquidation and formation of districts in the temporarily occupied territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions will be carried out upon the return of these territories to the jurisdiction of Ukraine.
Thus, as a result of the reform, ten districts will be formed on the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula, six districts of Vinnytsia region, four districts in Volyn region, seven districts in Dnipropetrovsk region, eight districts in Donetsk region [including Russia-controlled territories], four districts in Zhytomyr region, six districts in Zakarpattia region, five districts in Zaporizhia region, six districts in Ivano-Frankivsk region, seven districts in Kyiv region, four districts in Kirovohrad region, eight districts in Luhansk region [including Russia-controlled territories].
Seven new districts will be formed in Lviv region, four districts in Mykolaiv region, seven districts in Odesa region, four districts in Poltava region, the same number in Rivne region, five new districts in Sumy region, three ones in Ternopil region, seven districts in Kharkiv region, five districts in Kherson region and three districts in Khmelnytsky region.
Four districts were formed in Cherkasy region, three districts in Chernivtsi region and five districts in Chernihiv region.
