The Ivano-Frankivska urban amalgamated hromada continues to expand. On 8 November, the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council made a decision to consent to the voluntary accession of territorial communities to the Ivano-Frankivska AH. The villages of Berezivka, Bratkivtsi, Dobrovlyany, Pidpechery, Uzyn and Kolodiyivka join the city council under the simplified procedure provided for cities ofoblast significance.

The mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk Ruslan Martsinkiv calls this “marriage in love” and emphasises the voluntariness of accession of these six village councils to the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council.

In his turn, Ruslan Panasyuk, director of the Ivano-Frankivsk Local Government Development Centre of the U-LEAD with Europe Programme, adds that all these village councils are envisaged as part of a large urban hromada according to the Perspective Plan of hromadas’ formation in the oblast.

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