Ukraine's territory to have ten functional zones – Regional Development Ministry 2 min read The Ministry for Communities and Territories Development (Ministry of Regional Development) is developing a project for dividing the territory of Ukraine into ten functional zones. "The division of territories into ten functional types gives economic advantages to residents of different regions and will allow them to develop regions more efficiently. For the first time, regions will be divided according to the similarity of social and economic characteristics and without reference to established boundaries," the ministry's press service said, citing Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksiy Chernyshov. It is noted that the idea is to allocate funding not to the region, as it was before, but to the territories.