Instead, Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan tells the UBN that construction starts this summer on a hub airport project in Dnipropetrovsk region. Roughly midway between Dnipro and Zaporizhia, the site is three kilometers from the newly rebuilt, four lane, 85 km Dnipro-Zaporizhia highway. Ukraine’s first airport built since Independence in 1991, the regional airport is to be ready by 2021. Foreign participation is expected. Today, experts from Airport Consulting Vienna are in Dnipro, studying the existing airport. Last month, the Infrastructure Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with China Airport Construction Group Corporation.
Instead, Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan tells the UBN that construction starts this summer
