The administrative and territorial reform is one of the most important and successful reforms and it has to be completed prior to the local elections, appointed for October.

It was claimed by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal on Friday, June, 12, while opening the extraordinary meeting of the Government.

According to the Prime-Minister, for hromadas to be able to function successfully it is necessary to proceed to the next reform phase – the sub-regional level, tailored rayons formation. «That is why we aim at approving a new project of establishing rayons within region for the authorities to function in the most efficient way and not to duplicate any functions. Currently there are 490 rayons in the map of Ukraine, it is suggested that there must be thrice less consolidated rayons. By the way, the existing rayons of Ukraine were formed at the USSR era in the first half of the previous century and they fail to meet modern standards on many criteria. Moreover, there are rayons with the population of a little more than 5 thousand residents and rayons where over 180 thousand people reside. It causes considerable imbalances and management difficulties. Such rayons bear similar responsibility but have a different burden, thus, it must be set right», - emphasized Denys Shmyhal.