The Odesa District Administrative Court denied the claim of two apartment owners in Kherson who attempted to challenge the decision refusing compensation for destroyed property.
This is stated in the relevant court ruling.
The plaintiffs, owners of a three-room apartment, filed a lawsuit against the head of the Kherson MVA and the relevant commission. They sought to declare unlawful the commission’s decision of August 22, 2025, according to which they were denied a housing certificate. The commission justified the refusal by stating that restoring the building is economically impractical because the cost of major repairs exceeds the cost of new construction.
Having considered the case materials in simplified proceedings, the court established that, according to expert reports, the object has Category II damage, which implies the possibility of restoration through major repairs rather than complete destruction.
The court also took into account that the estimate calculations concern the restoration of the common property of the apartment building, the manager of which is the condominium association (OSBB).
Thus, the commission’s decision was upheld.
Earlier we wrote that the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law that exempts owners of damaged and destroyed housing from paying for communal utilities.