2,650 sports facilities restored and built in Ukraine over past three years

"There were 94,028 sports facilities in Ukraine three years ago; 95,880 facilities in 2017; 96,678 facilities in 2018. Over the past three years, 2,650 objects facilities have been built and restored. It is a clearly positive dynamics," Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Ihor Zhdanov said at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on March 27, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

He added that almost all years of Ukraine's independence were characterized by a decline in sports infrastructure.

The minister stressed that since 2016 the situation in Ukraine had drastically changed and the systemic revival of sports infrastructure had started thanks to the efforts of the Governments under the leadership of Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Volodymyr Groysman.

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