The news website Poltavshchyna reports that the Poltava City Council left three of their information queries without response. The team elaborated on the situation to Nadia Kucher, the Institute of Mass Information representative in Poltava oblast.
Poltavshchyna journalists submitted two queries to Poltava City Council, asking about permits for the ongoing repair work in the local Corps Park. However, the team received no response.
In a comment to the IMI representative, journalist Anastasia Nedohorska clarified that the city authorities ignored three of their queries.
“The city authorities ignored three of our queries. We had to submit one of the queries twice, because they missed the response deadlines,” she said.
The IMI representative has contacted the City Council’s press service and the acting mayor of Poltava, Kateryna Yamshchykova, three times over the past two weeks via a group chat for city officials and journalists, but is yet to receive a comment on the situation.
In May 2025, Poltava journalists reported unsatisfactory communication by the City Council and claimed that there is an unnamed and unauthorized person in the Council who instructs the staff on how to communicate with media professionals and what to discuss.
In November 2024, the news outlets Poltavshchyna and Zmist complained that the acting mayor Kateryna Yamshchykova and the mayor’s first deputies had forbidden the directors of Poltava’s municipal companies, in particular those subordinate to the Housing and Communal Services Department of the City Council, to talk with journalists. The news outlets also reported that information queries from the media remained unanswered.
Poltavshchyna has complained that the city government had advised their reporters to search for data on the money spent on road works, roof repairs, playground and sports ground maintenance, and purchasing utilities equipment by themselves.