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On 25 August 2026 the Department of Housing and Communal Services in Bila Tserkva announced an additional tender of more than 1 million UAH for tree removal and maintenance. The winner must remove 157 trees and deliver care (pruning, thinning, removal of dry branches and mistletoe) for 150 more by the end of 2026. Bila Tserkva is a Kyiv Oblast city; this second tender increases local green-maintenance spending and may affect nearby residents and contractors.
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On 29 August 2026 the Peresopnytsia Gospel reaches 465 years since its completion in 1561. The mid-16th-century parchment manuscript — one of the first Ukrainian-language Gospel translations, weighing more than nine kilograms — is the text presidents use when taking the Ukrainian oath. The original Peresopnytsia Gospel is kept in Kyiv; two facsimile copies are on display at the Peresopnytsia cultural‑archaeological centre in Rivne region.
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Bila Tserkva city council voted on 27 August 2026 to merge City Hospital No.3 and the municipal maternity hospital into City Hospital No.2. The reorganisation establishes a single communal enterprise with a new charter and a statutory capital of more than 84 million UAH. The consolidation aims to secure more state funding via NSZU service packages and keep more medical services in Bila Tserkva rather than sending patients to Kyiv.
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On 25 August the Bila Tserkva executive committee approved one-way traffic on Mykola Khrustalenko Street, the short link between Pavlichenko Street, the local bus station and the Central market. Deputy mayor Alyona Kolotnytska told officials the signs were already in place but lacked a formal legal decision. Drivers and market visitors in Kyiv Oblast should note the confirmed routing between Pavlichenko Street and the bus station; expect official signage and revised parking arrangements.
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For January–July 2026 local budgets across Kyiv region received UAH 1.9 billion in land payments, a 24.8% increase on 2025. Bila Tserkva taxpayers accounted for UAH 148.5 million of that total, the regional administration reports, with businesses providing the bulk of receipts. Land tax and lease payments flow straight to local budgets; these figures show which Kyiv-region communities are the largest contributors and reflect municipal revenue strength.
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Bila Tserkva has begun preliminary testing of a cashless fare system using the municipal e-Hromada app’s Transport module on 10 vehicles across several bus and trolley routes. The system accepts transport cards, QR tickets and other contactless payments and will record each trip automatically. The trial is the city’s first municipal rollout of the e‑Hromada Transport module and will include electronic tickets for pensioners and other beneficiaries.
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Local farms in the Bila Tserkva district have assembled feed reserves for 34,501 head of cattle, including 15,106 cows, according to the district administration on 19 August 2026. Producers focused on silage, haylage, hay and straw and used technologies such as corn-crackers to raise feed digestibility. Bila Tserkva accounts for almost 40% of Kyiv oblast’s cattle, so its harvest and storage choices shape the region’s winter feed security.
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A draft registered with the Bila Tserkva city council proposes moving 19 communal properties — including a boiler house, warehouses, pump stations and water towers — from the Agency for Strategic Development to the city’s Department of Communal Property and Concessions, Espreso reported on 18 August 2026. Council approval is pending. The change would centralise maintenance and accounting for non-residential sites across Bila Tserkva and nearby Tomylivka, affecting municipal infrastructure and storage facilities.
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After a high-profile crash in central Kyiv on 17 August and the president's reaction, the Ministry of Internal Affairs says it will strengthen road enforcement. Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi ordered tougher measures: dozens of new automatic speed cameras will start operating this week and unmarked 'phantom' patrol cars will return to the roads. Kyiv drivers should expect more fixed and mobile speed enforcement soon; the Patrol Police will publish exact camera locations for the city and region.
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The Tarashchanska hromada’s A nearby Kyiv-region community funded local youth ideas with combined municipal and private support, focusing on sports, parks and leisure projects.
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Bila Tserkva's municipal heat utility discovered 46 damages in the city's heating network while preparing for the 2026–27 heating season. By 4 August crews had repaired 39 leaks; remaining work includes trunk-pipeline sections such as TK-22–TK-23 and further pipeline and boiler-house repairs. Early detection and summer repairs in Bila Tserkva matter for Kyiv region residents because they reduce the risk of winter heating outages.
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A construction pit has been dug in Shevchenko Park on Yaroslav Mudry Street in central Bila Tserkva, inside the protected archaeological monument 'Okolne misto of Yuriyev'. Archaeologists warn the area preserves cultural layers spanning the founding-era through the 18th century; the planned building is listed as 13 m high and 991.3 m². The site lies in Kyiv region’s Bila Tserkva; destroying cultural layers risks losing context for artifacts tied to the city’s earliest recorded settlement.
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Three young leaders from Bila Tserkva—Alina Harkavenko, Nataliya Lanovska and Maksym Bryzhytskyi—were reported as recipients of the Kyiv region’s Award for Special Achievements of Youth on Aug 13, 2026. The Department of Youth and Sports named them in the nomination “For contribution to development of the youth movement.” Regional recognition highlights Bila Tserkva’s active youth centre work and may boost local projects and volunteering opportunities for young people.
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KNP KOR Kyiv Regional Children's Hospital No.2 has launched a Prozorro tender for roughly UAH 3.85 million to renovate the grounds at Sholom-Aleikhema St., 46 in Bila Tserkva. Works—due by 31 December 2026—cover new asphalt (1,059 m²), a 204 m² paved sidewalk, drainage and tactile tiles. The repairs will improve access to the regional pediatric hospital in Bila Tserkva and include tactile paving and a new stormwater system before the end of 2026.
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A 26-year-old man in Kyiv climbed into a barrel of tar to hide after smashing a supermarket’s glass door and stealing goods in Sviatoshynskyi district. Patrols detained him; officers spent more than five hours removing tar, using 12 litres of oil and 4 litres of detergent. An odd late-night arrest in Sviatoshynskyi: neighbours may have seen police activity while officers cleaned tar from the suspect before processing him.