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After Fedorov’s appointment, Kalmius received 2,1 billion hryvnias in contracts from Rebuild Agency structures
From 20 to 26 September, the Prozorro system published 74 thousand procurement notices for 46,86 billion UAH.
The largest contracts last week were awarded by regional Recovery Services for multi-year road maintenance — in total for 14 billion UAH. For the most part the picture is static: familiar market players won contracts in their own regions. But there is one exception in Zaporizhzhia. And it coincided precisely with the appointment of Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration head Ivan Fedorov as head of the Recovery Agency.
This concerns the local firm Kalmius, which with one hand received from the Zaporizhzhia service the first contract to install anti-drone protection on regional roads for 1,1 billion, and with the other — also 1,1 billion UAH from the Dnipropetrovsk service to build protective structures at two energy facilities.
Kalmius’s anti-drone protection is three times more expensive than Kharkiv’s
The tender for anti-drone nets over Zaporizhzhia’s roads was announced on 23 August. By that time it was already unofficially known that Mariupol mayor Vadym Boychenko had not passed the interview at the President’s Office for the position of head of the Rebuild Agency. And that the new candidate was Ivan Fedorov.
The tender documentation contained no special “tweaks,” yet no one contested Kalmius, and the firm won the contract without competition. The prices in this contract are very juicy for the contractor. Here is a price comparison between the Zaporizhzhia contract (screenshot on the left) and the contract of the Kharkiv Recovery Service with Avtomagistral-Pivden (one of several spring contracts in Kharkiv region with similar prices). For installing metal posts Kalmius will receive three times more, for mounting the protective net — also three times more, and for installing guy-wires made of metal wire — one and a half times more.
A classified billion for protecting DTEK facilities
Contracts to protect two energy facilities of DTEK Dniproenergo in Dnipropetrovsk region, each worth 515 million UAH (facility No.9 and facility No.10), were awarded to Kalmius without tender procedures. These are contracts the state awards according to regional and city resilience plans. According to the March Cabinet resolution No.393, contracts for infrastructure protection are awarded without Prozorro tenders and contract data are hidden from publication. Therefore the prices of construction materials in these contracts are currently unknown.
The previous leadership of the Rebuild Agency implemented publication of prices for major construction materials used in protective structures in a dashboard on its website (those prices come from delivery notes). In August–September there was a clear trend of rising prices for rebar of all diameters. Across regions it rose from the lowest price of 35 700 UAH/ton to 39 350 UAH/ton. However it had not yet exceeded 40 thousand UAH, whereas on the Metinvest-SMC website retail prices were already at the level of 48 thousand UAH.
Where Kalmius came from
LLC Construction Company Kalmius was registered in Zaporizhzhia to Danylo Sandiriev in 2025. Just two weeks after registration the firm began receiving construction contracts in the Zaporizhzhia RSA system and the local Recovery Service. Initially these were underground shelters in schools and protective structures over local transformers. And now protection for roads from drones and large projects outside Zaporizhzhia region have been added.
Overall the firm received contracts worth 5,60 billion UAH through Prozorro in a year and a half, of which 2,14 billion UAH it received after Fedorov headed the Rebuild Agency.
The history of Kalmius’s appearance in public procurement shows that the company belongs to Fedorov’s Melitopol circle.
Kalmius received its first state contract in March 2025, two weeks after its establishment. At that time the firm confirmed it had work experience by having a subcontract with another company, Positive, for construction of an underground lyceum. That Positive was punished by the Antimonopoly Committee a few days after bringing Kalmius into the contract for collusion in another tender. So Positive could no longer participate in subsequent bids, and it was replaced by Kalmius.
The company Positive, which provided Kalmius with experience, was registered in Melitopol before the invasion, when Ivan Fedorov was mayor there. It changed its registration to Zaporizhzhia when Fedorov headed the regional administration. The firm belongs to Maksym Haidai — the former director of the Vikonda showroom. Previously the owner was Melitopol city council deputy Mykola Bilyi, owner of Vikonda-Zaporizhzhia.
Kalmius owner Danylo Sandiriev was not previously known in large-scale construction. Before this he worked on installing saunas, fireplaces and chimneys and still advertises that business on his own website. At the same time the outlet “368.media” linked Sandiriev to People’s Deputy Serhii Minko. In 2014–2019 years Minko was mayor of Melitopol, and his deputy then was Ivan Fedorov.
Kalmius’s ties to Melitopol are also evidenced by cooperation with the company Morena SK, from which the firm rents construction equipment. Morena SK figures in an investigation by the Bureau of Economic Security into possible embezzlement of budget funds on fortification construction in Zaporizhzhia region. According to law enforcement, that company is controlled by former Melitopol city council deputy Serhii Bilovol, who is the main suspect in the case.
Author: Yurii Nikolov, Nashi Hroshi
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