City council in Kirovohradska oblast ignores a query by Tochka Dostupu

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The Dolynska City Council (Kirovohradska oblast) ignored an information query from the Kropyvnytskyi news outlet Tochka Dostupku, which wanted to know the details about the Council purchasing an Opel Combo car, reports the news outlet's journalist Anna Dobran to the regional Institute of Mass Information representative Pavlo Lisnychenko.

According to the journalist, their editorial office sent the query back on January 14. The journalists were interested in the details of the Council purchasing an Opel Combo Life L2 for mobile support teams for domestic abuse victims. However, the journalists never received the requested information or a decision to extend the deadline for processing the query.

Anna Dobran notes that such a reaction is typical for the Dolynska Mayor Yevheniy Zvizdovskyi.

“Over the past year, neither the Mayor nor other City Council officials have ever answered either phone calls or written queries. Zvizdovskyi once responded to our attempts to contact him in Telegram, but even then it was just one sentence without any specifics,” Anna Dobran says.

The news outlet is preparing a complaint with the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights and plans to appeal the Dolynska City Council officials' inaction.

Earlier, the Ternopil oblast SBU, TSC branches declined queries about the salaries of their management by 20 Khvylyn.