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A secrecy classification during wartime is a convenient and sometimes absolutely indispensable thing, especially when you need to distribute 320 million hryvnias to defend a devastated region without extra eyes and without tenders. The Service for the Restoration of Kherson Region decided not to bother with trifles and gave the lion’s share of contracts to one Kyiv firm that had just re-registered in the south.
However, behind the façade of a respectable general contractor turned up a remarkable cocktail: a former agronomist from Liman’s "Zelenbud," former owners listed in the Myrotvorets database, Donetsk-era connections from the Yanukovych period, and an omnipresent bookkeeper from the orbit of Kyiv builders linked to OPZZh. It seems that, instead of enemy strikes, Kherson’s facilities will now be salvaged by tried-and-true masters of budget absorption, investigators from the outlet Anticorruption Measure note.
In April of 2026 the Service for Restoration and Infrastructure Development in Kherson region ordered the reconstruction of four facilities. Data about the facilities are hidden, which can be justified given the situation in the region. What is not necessarily justifiable, though, is that 4 contracts with a total value of more than 320 million were awarded to contractors without using the electronic procurement system. In other words, directly.
One contract concerned facility No. 8 in Chornobaiv territorial community. The other three—facilities No. 6, No. 7, No. 9, and No. 10—are in Kherson territorial community. All three facilities in the Kherson community went to a single contractor. That’s over 256 million hryvnias.
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Earlier Nikcenter reported that these were contracts for the protection of the region’s critical infrastructure. Handing critically important contracts in the Kherson community to a contractor like LLC Construction Company Atlantiks raised many questions among journalists. Anticorruption Measure thoroughly investigated the connections of the contractor that received contracts worth a quarter of a billion.
The more information emerged about the contractor, the less understandable the choice of the Service for Restoration and Infrastructure Development in Kherson region became. Although the same contractor also signed contracts worth over 173 million with the Main Directorate of Communications and Cybersecurity of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A contractor with an interesting past
According to the analytical system YouControl, LLC Construction Company Atlantiks is currently registered in Kherson. The owner and director is listed as Yevhen Pasichnyk. Until August of 2026 the firm was registered in Kyiv.
Yevhen Pasichnyk is registered in the city of Lyman, Donetsk region. He became the owner in 2023. Previous beneficiaries of the company were from Donetsk and Bakhmut. They owned the firm since 2019. Before that, Kyiv residents were listed as owners.
A person with the same full name, Yevhen Oleksandrovych Pasichnyk, previously served in Lyman as head of the executive committee of the city organization of the political party Nash Krai.
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Recall that in Ukraine in 2024 the political party Nash Krai was banned by a court ruling over accusations of pro-Russian and anti-state activity. However, in August of 2025 the Supreme Court overturned the ban. That same month the party announced its self-dissolution due to “critical reputational damage” and other factors.
In addition, a person with the same data in Lyman was the head of the municipal enterprise Limanskyi Zelenbud.
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He resigned from the position of director of the municipal enterprise, according to his declaration, in 2024. The director of the municipal enterprise Limanskyi Zelenbud in 2020 was also a candidate for the city council from the Servant of the People party in Lyman.
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By education, the new owner of LLC Construction Company Atlantiks is an agronomist, so he could well have been the head of the municipal enterprise Limanskyi Zelenbud, about which the declaration indicates that before that he worked at an agricultural company.
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The previous owner of LLC Construction Company Atlantiks, Serhiy Koltsov, according to the Myrotvorets website, traveled to territories occupied by Russia from 2015 to 2023.
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The Center for Public Investigations noted that until November of 2023 one of the company’s co-owners was Oleh Stankevych, who since 2014 has owned LLC Pidnebesia. Journalists pointed out that this linked the company to a legal entity registered in occupied territory. An investigation by Kyivshchyna 24/7 found that the company received contracts from the Ministry of Defense, and it was believed that construction materials for those works were purchased at inflated prices.
But why would this former agronomist, ex-director of the municipal enterprise from Lyman (after acquiring a company previously owned by someone who liked to travel to occupied territories and by a person allegedly linked to a firm in the occupied territories) begin securing contracts worth hundreds of millions? Maybe the matter isn’t really about him.
As of February of 2025 the company’s bookkeeper was listed as Liubov Mykolaivna Denha.
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The woman managed to work as chief accountant at a number of notable companies. For example, one of the companies where Liubov Mykolaivna served as chief accountant, LLC First Ukrainian Expert Center, was mentioned in an investigation by Slidstvo.Info as early as 2015. The firm is also mentioned in a 2024 piece “Zlobudovnyk of Kyiv” from OPZZh. The authors link the firm to Ihor Kushnir, chairman of the board – president of the company Kyivmiskbud.
Another company where Liubov Denha worked as chief accountant is LLC RD GAZ. This company is associated with the corporate group Bud Holding Limited, whose key person, according to YouControl, is Dmytro Ivanovych Marmuliak.
How Ihor Kushnir is connected to Dmytro Marmuliak was reported by Nashi Hroshi as early as 2021.
Media also reported that Marmuliak was a member of the supervisory board of Crystalbank, which journalists unofficially named as co-owned by the same Ihor Kushnir. Interestingly, Kushnir was a deputy in three convocations of the Kremenchuk city council, the hometown of Dmytro Marmuliak.
By the way, about Crystalbank. Yurii Levchenko, a former Svoboda member, head of the Narodovladdia party, and a People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the VIII convocation, wrote on Facebook in 2022, among other things:
“According to media reports, Marmuliak is considered close to Stolar. In particular, through Marmuliak Stolar allegedly controls Crystal Bank. The latter, in turn, even before Russia’s full-scale invasion, civil activists accused of being involved in financing Russian terrorist groups in Donbas.”
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Marmuliak indeed served as a member of the bank’s supervisory (observational) board, according to the “Annual Information of the Issuer of Securities for 2016.”
It is also interesting that in 2024 LLC Construction Company Atlantiks advertised equipment for rent in tenders. A fairly wide range of equipment was rented from the company SPECTECHPOSLUGA. The head of that company is a participant in an HOA from the same city of Lyman.
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A person with the same full name is an accused in a case concerning embezzlement, misappropriation of property, or seizing it by abusing official position.
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And the outlet Nashi Hroshi recently published a piece “A Firm from Kizimenko’s Orbit Must Build a Water Pipeline in Bucha Community by Winter for 388 million.” Journalists note that David Kizimenko is the brother of Matfey Kizimenko, who since spring of 2024 has headed the state enterprise State Research, Design and Survey Institute “NDIproektrekonstruktsiia.”
“Matfey Kizimenko was an assistant to MP Anatolii Blyzniuk, who during Yanukovych’s time headed the Donetsk Regional Council and was minister of regional development and construction. The father of David and Matfey Kizimenko is Oleg Kizimenko, who during Yanukovych’s time headed the Department of Capital Construction of DonODA, and since 2012 was deputy mayor under Sevastopol’s Volodymyr Yatsuba. After Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Kizimenko Sr. remained in that same position. In December of 2018 he was convicted in Ukraine and given a five-year suspended sentence for separatism,” the article says.
So even if one does not take into account predecessors of the company’s current owner Yevhen Pasichnyk, the company entrusted with reconstructing critical infrastructure in Kherson for a quarter of a billion has ties pointing to Donetsk. Those ties look, to put it mildly, “worrying.” Will the fact that the customer classified the facilities and did not publish the contracts help in this situation? Who will it help and how?
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