24 million and again for roads: Ukraine decided to allocate money for salt and sand for Bakhmut

Recently it became known that a tender worth more than 24 million for road maintenance was announced in Ukraine. Against the backdrop of the already sensational waste on paving stones, parks and telethons, it doesn’t sound very interesting, does it? You won't believe it when you find out where this work is done.

Bakhmut-Chasov Yar, the Kramatorsk direction and other hot spots on the map of Ukraine suddenly became an arena not for battles, but for road maintenance, which became known thanks to the Prozorro platform.

The announced tender for more than 24 million hryvnia looks, at first glance, like another joke with expenses in the country, but “the matter smells of kerosene again.” After all, these are roads where now there are not rented cars, but military equipment.

It's funny that it's a completely natural order of things when you need to maintain roads where they are really needed. But such an amount is clearly too much. As if clearing snow and sprinkling salt on roads is exactly what is needed right now in the epicenter of war.

In the tender description, an advance payment of 30% of the total amount is allocated, but the list of materials that are going to be purchased is even more interesting:

• sodium chloride (regular salt),
• sand,
• hot and warm asphalt concrete mixtures,
• asphalt granulates and petroleum bitumens.

The cost of all these materials is estimated at 55 thousand hryvnia, taking into account taxes and transportation. And here the question arises: what will the remaining 24 million be used for?