The deputies of the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council supported the decision on accession of the Cherniyiv and Pidluzhzhia village councils to the Ivano-Frankivsk urban territorial hromada.

"The process of formation of the Ivano-Frankivsk urban amalgamated hromada is almost complete. We will work as one AH from 1 January,” said Ivano-Frankivsk Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv.

"As we form an AH, we look to the future, to increase the territory and to equalise the development opportunities of both the city and the village. The benefits at the voluntary amalgamation phase are infrastructure subventions, land outside settlements that villages could not previously use on their own,” said Ruslan Panasyuk, director of the Ivano-Frankivsk Local Government Development Centre of the U-LEAD with Europe Programme.