One of the most high-profile land conflicts of the year is ongoing in Kyiv — a dispute over a plot of land at 2-A Heroiv Dnipra Street with an area of over 0.4 hectares, which in November 2024 the Kyiv City Council agreed to lease to RVS LLC. The company is part of the orbit of the developer Standard One, which specializes in high-rise "income" complexes. However, after the decision was made, the city council actually sabotaged the signing of the lease agreement, which is why the developer went to court — and won the first round.
On October 30, 2025, the Kyiv Commercial Court ordered the city to conclude a 10-year lease agreement with RVS LLC. The document provides for the use of the site for the construction and maintenance of an apartment building with retail and entertainment facilities. The Kyiv City Council still has 20 days to file an appeal.
The city council explains the refusal to sign the agreement with two reasons. The first is the imbalance of the area: the land plot is 2.6 times larger than the non-residential building on it, with an area of 1576 sq. m. The second is the inconsistency of the purpose code with the technical documentation on land management. A draft of the secretary of the Kyiv City Council at that time, Volodymyr Bondarenko, on the revocation of the previous decision on land allocation has already been registered in the session hall.
The history of this land dates back to the 2000s: the site was formed by merging two plots and had several changes in purpose. Part of the territory was previously used as a shopping pavilion, the other was without a registered user until the moment when RVS LLC purchased a building there. The further documentation process was accompanied by inaccuracies, complaints to the State Geocadastre and controversial changes in the cadastre - in particular, regarding the boundaries and area of the site, which sometimes decreased, sometimes increased.
In 2022, the land use was changed to residential development at the initiative of a private enterprise that worked with documents for the "RVS". Already in 2023, the Land Resources Department of the Kyiv City State Administration appealed the actions of land managers, but attempts to cancel their certificates were unsuccessful. And in July 2024, the Kyiv City Council approved technical documentation that allowed residential development in exactly the form in which the developer sought it.
However, at the same time, Kyiv City Council lawyers warned: there is a risk of lawsuits due to the disproportion between the area of the building and the size of the plot, as well as due to signs of the use of the "toilet scheme" - a mechanism when a tenant receives large territories without an auction based on the presence of a small structure on the land.
Against the backdrop of high-profile anti-corruption investigations that have affected Kyiv City State Administration officials and Kyiv City Council deputies since the beginning of 2025, land decisions from previous years are under special attention of law enforcement agencies. The “toilet” land allotments have already become the subject of criminal proceedings No. 52023000000000154, and several officials have been suspected. Among the defendants are former Deputy Head of Kyiv City State Administration Petro Olenych and Head of the Kyiv City Council Land Commission Mykhailo Terentyev.
The scandal with the plot at 2-A Heroes of the Dnipro Street may become another episode in a major anti-corruption case, where law enforcement officers are checking the entire array of decisions on land transfers made in previous years. Meanwhile, the developer has already won the first battle in court, and the fate of the half-hectare of land in Obolon will depend on the appeal and further political decisions in the Kyiv City Council.
