ABSTRACT
The aim of the chapter is to characterize the complexity of the response at the national and local levels, especially the urban level, to the Covid-19 pandemic in Ukraine. The chapter tries to determine the way the relationship between the President of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, and local self-governments (mostly municipal) were shaped. The chapter uses the case study method. A descriptive method and content analysis (mainly legal acts) were used. The conducted analysis allows for a comprehensive illustration of the response of municipal self-governments in Ukraine to the pandemic and post-pandemic crisis in the conditions of, on the one hand, the conflict between the government administration and municipal self-government administration, and on the other hand, the lack of the possibility to use the EU instruments of ‘fighting’ against the Covid-19 pandemic which are used by municipal self-governments in Visegrad Group countries. Importantly, the chapter takes into account the impact of the full-scale war in Ukraine, which began in 2022, on the change in the approach of both the government administration and municipal self-governments to the problem of counteracting the destructive consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic.
