“We have been waiting for this law for a long time. The future Kolomyiska AH should attach at least 6 villages that have given their consent. Three more villages have not taken their decision so far, however, as far as I know, they also want to form an amalgamated hromada together with us. Kolomyia has 61 thousand inhabitants, and ten neighbouring hromadas include about 20 thousand residents. That is, even in such a configuration we will establish an extremely powerful AH,” said Kolomyia Mayor Ihor Slyuzar to decentralisation.gov.ua, commenting on signing of the Law No 6466.

“If this law acts as it was originally intended for, it will be extremely positive. If we were able to create a powerful amalgamated hromada, we would first of all have made a balneological resort on its basis. The regional landscape park “Seymsky” in the village of Zholdaky, located 20 km from Konotop, is almost the cleanest place in the whole Ukraine," said Artem Semenikhin.

As it was reported, on 4 May 2018, the President signed the law on accession to cities of oblast significance.

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