For over ten years, Kyiv residents have been promised stable internet and a video surveillance system in the capital's subway. The investor was supposed to be the company “Mosquito Mobile” LLC (formerly “Fidomobile”), which won the Kyiv City State Administration competition back in 2014. The project looked ambitious: 52 stations, hundreds of subway cars, tens of millions of hryvnias in investments and safe, modern transport. In practice, however, there have been endless legal disputes, frozen deadlines and suspicions that the investment scheme has become another platform for non-transparent decisions. KV .
The beginning and the “freezing”
The investment agreement, signed in December 2014, provided that “Mosquito Mobile” would invest UAH 100 million in Wi-Fi and video surveillance. But already in 2017, the project was officially “frozen” – the Kyiv City State Administration explained this by the investor’s inability to finance the work. Then came the unilateral termination of the contract, lawsuits and the company’s demand to restore access to the equipment.
In 2019, the Kyiv Commercial Court sided with the investor: the officials did not prove which violations allowed the termination of the agreement. At the same time, it turned out that the equipment “does not work”, but consumes electricity – a situation that raised questions even for the judge.
In 2021–2024, the parties postponed the deadlines several times. The war and the mobilization of the company's head became another argument of the investor: they say, the work is not progressing due to air raids, the loss of contractors and objective circumstances. In March 2025, the court again supported Mosquito Mobile - it extended the agreement for another 5 years.
The Kyiv City State Administration and the Kyiv Metro Enterprise filed an appeal. The hearing in the Northern Economic Court of Appeal is scheduled for September 15, 2025.
Who is behind the project?
The formal beneficiary of Mosquito Mobile is a Cypriot company, but the traces lead to Ukrainian business groups. In 2017, the owner was named Oleksandr Adarich, a former co-owner of Fidobank, who stopped financing the project. Later, Kamoret Invest LLC appeared in the case, associated with businessman Petro Slipets, a figure in high-profile development scandals in Kyiv.
The Wi-Fi project in the subway became an example of systemic problems in Kyiv's investment policy:
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opaque competitions, where the public and deputies did not have access to real deals for years;
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changing the rules “during the game” – from terminations to renewals in the courts;
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dubious partners with histories of financial bankruptcies and problematic developments;
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lack of results: despite the money spent and years of waiting, high-speed internet in the subway still remains more of a promise than a reality.
The appeals court's decision in September will determine whether Mosquito Mobile will get another five years to implement the investment. For Kyiv residents, this means either the project will be stuck in litigation again, or the city hall will be forced to negotiate with the same investor who has been unable to complete the project for over a decade.
