The Minister told how many thousands of bridges in Ukraine may collapse

Half bridge is in poor condition.

Of the 17 thousand bridges across half of Ukraine is in poor condition, a quarter in the critical and only about a hundred still standing. More than half of the bridges, which is about nine thousand, as of 2017 are in disrepair, four thousand are in need of urgent repair.

This was announced by Minister of infrastructure Volodymyr Omelian during a briefing in the Ministry of infrastructure.

On the background of the situation with the road construction, which threatens to become critical, the Minister said that this year the state has the financial ability to fix just 80 bridges. Thus, said a senior official, Ukraine is implementing a program to restore the bridges.

In addition, according to the Omelyan, this year it is planned the construction of new bridges. In the first place, the Minister added, will carry the city of Nikolaev.

We will remind, this week partially collapsed shuliavska bridge. As a result of incident nobody has suffered. The mayor of Kiev Vitaly Klitschko said that the incident guilty his Deputy Ilya Sagaidak and the head of Solomensky RGA Maxim Shkuro. The mayor asked the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to dismiss skins and also made a submission on the dismissal of Management. Later, Klitschko has made displacement the officials to vacate their posts.

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