On September 21, 2026, petition No. 14533 was registered on the official website of the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA), submitted by Serhiy Boyko. The appeal calls for a review of the car towing procedure under the martial law currently in force in Ukraine. The initiator proposes to exclude private operators from the process of transporting illegally parked vehicles and to transfer this function exclusively to the city's municipal enterprises. The petition must gather 6,000 votes within 60 days, after which it will be reviewed by the Kyiv City Council.
Key demands of the initiator
The text of the appeal sets out a number of specific proposals. First, the author calls on city authorities not to tow vehicles that do not obstruct traffic and do not create an emergency situation on the road. Second, the petition emphasizes that during an air raid alarm, drivers are forced to leave their vehicles and head to shelters, and the subsequent towing of such cars creates additional risks for citizens. Third, the initiator insists on a complete refusal to involve private companies in the towing process, in favor of municipal structures.
The financial argument
A separate section of the petition is devoted to the distribution of towing revenue. According to the author of the appeal, only a 340-hryvnia fine for parking violations goes into the city budget, while the bulk of the income from the actual vehicle transport is received by private operators. It is precisely this disproportion, in the initiator's view, that makes the current system unfair and encourages commercial interest at the expense of citizens' interests.
Contradictory data
At the same time, the sources record an important caveat: during an active air raid alarm, parking inspectors in Kyiv already do not tow vehicles. In addition, after the all-clear is sounded, a 20-minute grace period applies, during which violations of stopping and parking rules are not fined. Thus, some of the petition's arguments — in particular, the claim about cars left by drivers in shelters being towed — do not fully correspond to current practice. On the other hand, the initiator may be referring to situations where towing is carried out not during the alarm itself but in the period of its immediate end, when formally the inspectors may already begin working, but drivers have not yet returned to their vehicles. This mismatch between the petition's wording and the recorded rules remains a subject of debate.
Context: rising towing costs
The relevance of the appeal is reinforced against the backdrop of a recent tariff review. In April 2026, Kyiv raised the minimum cost of towing a car: for private operators it came to 1,680 hryvnias. For comparison, in 2025 the minimum transport price started from 1,200 hryvnias. Meanwhile, 1,680 hryvnias is exactly the cost of transporting a vehicle weighing up to 2,000 kg if the towing is carried out by the National Police. Thus, the gap between the old and new tariff for private companies is 480 hryvnias, which is 40% higher than the previous minimum.
Legal status of the petition
It is important to understand that petition No. 14533 is a citizen's proposal and in itself does not change the existing car towing rules. Its review by the Kyiv City Council is possible only upon reaching the threshold of 6,000 votes. Until that moment, all current norms, including the involvement of private operators and the established tariffs, continue to apply as before. Nevertheless, the very fact of registering the appeal and the public discussion around it may become a stimulus for the relevant city council committees to review the existing regulations under the ongoing martial law.
