The Kyiv city government has finally decided on a company that will dismantle shop No. 5 of the Bolshevik plant in order to continue the reconstruction of the Shulyavsky overpass. For this work, the city will pay UAH 121.12 million to the Prombud Technologies consortium, a structure created less than two weeks before the procurement announcement. The contract amount is dynamic and does not take into account inflationary risks and material costs, which means that further funding may increase.
The procurement procedure turned into a scandal: the cheapest offers were rejected, and the participant PE "Engineering and Production Center "Vector"" was disqualified three times due to allegedly unreliable data. Despite the fact that it was this participant who achieved the cancellation of the tender results in the Antimonopoly Committee, the final decision was still made in favor of the newly created consortium. Formal legal obstacles have been removed, and Kyiv is moving towards another large-scale dismantling.
However, among the high-profile contracts and scandals surrounding infrastructure projects in the capital, there remains an issue that directly affects the safety of thousands of people - the situation on Poshtova Square. Under it, for many years, there has been an 8-meter-high excavation with an area of over 6 thousand square meters. It is covered with a temporary slab that acts as a ceiling for the square, which is walked by Kyiv residents and tourists every day. From this dangerous space to the subway tunnels - only 16 meters.
The reconstruction of Poshtova Square began in 2013 with the participation of budget funds in the amount of UAH 504 million and private investments in the amount of UAH 163 million. The investor was a little-known LLC "Hansford Ukraine", associated with individuals from the orbit of the Yanukovych regime. Subsequently, the investment contract was canceled, construction was stopped, and the facility became a hostage to judicial and bureaucratic processes. Since 2022, the implementation of any commercial development on this site has been legally blocked, but the emergency issue is actually frozen.
Today, Poshtova Square is not a reconstruction or an archaeological project, but a silent man-made danger that the authorities avoid acknowledging. Against the backdrop of dismantling and construction for hundreds of millions of hryvnias, this excavation remains unnoticed. Instead of an engineering solution, ensuring safety and strengthening the structures, the square has been held up on temporary supports for almost ten years.
The key issue is the city's priorities. Kyiv is spending huge sums of money on new infrastructure projects, while one of the most dangerous sites in the center of the capital remains untouched. Along with lawsuits and bidding wars, Poshtova Square continues to welcome crowds of people every day over the void. And while the authorities' attention is focused on high-profile reconstructions, this silent threat is only growing.
