Strange reaction to the activists of the village Pidhtirtsi appeared on the social network Facebook

Strange reaction to activists of the village of Pidhirtsi appeared on the social network Facebook.

27 July, on Friday, the activists again drew the attention of officials, standing 3 for days under the walls of the Kyiv regional state administration.

After this picket, on the official page of the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture of the Kyiv ODA on Facebook, the following post appeared.

A brief summary of this post is that the department is shifting responsibility for the development and approval of changes to the general plan of the village of Pidhirtsi and assures that they only identified and provided comments to bring the project decisions of the village’s master plan into current legislation, but did not change it.

A very interesting coincidence is that three people who have a stake in the changes to the master plan and development of the swampy land are commenting on that Facebook post at once — acting chief architect of the department Dmytro Lykov, developer Andriy Nasisovskyi, and the head of Pidhirtsi village council Serhii Kravchenko.

For residents, it also seems strange that recently the head of the village council began to be guarded by a group of people resembling private security companies. They are interested in why the head of the village council was scared, or whom and with what they want to intimidate.

It should be noted that the response from the acting chief architect — Dmytro Lykov — the activists received only after they addressed him by surname on posters.

Also, in the aforementioned post, villagers were accused of not knowing the names of their streets and deputies. But this is because many of them have summer cottages right near the place where development is planned and near the places where land was promised for allotment for gardens.

The post contains accusations toward the activists about why, after an hour of the picket, they gathered near the road, supposedly for monetary compensation. Lawful residents insist they gathered near the road to attract as much attention as possible from Kyiv residents, not to receive money.

A photo is attached.

The activists emphasize that when a developer is determined, competitions, tenders are conducted, the best possible option or even several companies are chosen at once for more effective work. They are outraged that this time such serious measures were not taken and claim that the head of the village council has his own “effective” methods. As an example, they cite a strange incident when in December 2017 year in the village of Pidhirtsi a multi-million ruble (or hryvnia) contract for road repairs was carried out in 4 minutes.

Oleh Boyko