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The curator of the “Great Construction,” Yurii Holyk, has latched onto miltech: drones, government tenders, and related companies.
The name of the former adviser to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, Yurii Holyk, is firmly associated with the “Great Construction” project initiated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy even before the full-scale invasion. Journalists and anti-corruption bodies investigated collusion in government tenders where firms close to Holyk’s former boss, Valentyn Reznichenko, were winning. That case was recently sent to court. Meanwhile Holyk faded somewhat from journalists’ view. To his detriment. It turned out that companies from the “big theft” continue to actively profit from government tenders to this day, while Holyk has begun moving into miltech.
In 2024 year, when the scandal over embezzlement in the “Great Construction” erupted, Holyk left Ukraine for Austria as a volunteer for the charity Songs Born in the ATO. He claimed he hadn’t fled anywhere and that it was another trip to procure items needed by the Armed Forces. Supposedly he had crossed the border many times before and always returned, declaring aid to the army.
He has many connections to Austria. In particular, businessman Denys Ostrovskyi, who founded the company SK Stroyinvest. That company won a large number of government contracts while Valentyn Reznichenko was in office in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Journalists published messages from Yurii Holyk’s phone in which he effectively consulted with Ostrovskyi about tenders.
Denys Ostrovskyi is also the founder of the Austrian company ODM BAU & Investitions, whose activities are run by attorney Serhii Bakhariov. The latter also works at Deverte Holding GmbH.
That company is listed among the founders of LLC K.A.N., which is part of businessman Oleksandr Spektor’s group.
Until April 2024, Spektor was a co-owner of the firm Creative Shtat Senator, shares of which are owned by Yurii Holyk. That company is part of the group that runs the Creative states creative spaces. One of the large offices is located in Spektor’s Senator business center.
In June 2026 the SBU conducted searches at Oleksandr Spektor’s premises. Investigators suspect that the businessman, through controlled companies, helped the state traitor Viktor Medvedchuk evade sanctions and move funds out of Ukraine.
Several of Holyk’s recent interviews were given in Creative states spaces. For example, a lengthy account in which he said that he and a team of engineers established drone production.
On his Facebook page you can see many posts devoted to modern defense solutions. He also posts photos of UAVs that his team produces to order for the military.
Media publications indicate that Holyk is involved in modernizing the Sting UAV. Officially those drones are produced by the company Wild Hornets. The firm has roots in the charitable fund Community of Wild Hornets, which was registered in 2023.
Among the founders is Yuri Vinnichuk, editor-in-chief of Business.Censor. An unnamed person identifiable as Vinnichuk told Obozrevatel’s defense outlet how Wild Hornets formed: “A small team of people from different fields organized: an IT specialist, a film director, a builder, and two media people.”
The second media person in the Hornets is apparently another founder of the charity — Viacheslav Kozyr. At least one joint piece prepared by Vinnichuk and Kozyr can be found online.
The Community of Wild Hornets is now headed by Ihor Mikushev. In 2023 he gave an interview to Censor as a volunteer of the Svobodu Ukrayini charity from the Kyiv region. A co-founder of that fund is likely former official Iryna Polshan from Holyk’s native Dnipropetrovsk region.
In 2026 another journalist, Alex Roslin, who writes for KyivPost, joined the Hornets. He is called the coordinator of the Wild Hornets project.
In April 2024 the Community of Wild Hornets charity transformed into the official company LLC Ukrainian Machines. Its director is the aforementioned Yuri Vinnichuk. The firm actively wins government tenders to supply Sting UAVs.
For example, in July 2026 Ukrainian Machines won a tender to supply Sting R4 UAVs with a digital thermal imaging camera to the Defense Work Department of the Zaporizhia Regional State Administration worth 4,4 million hryvnias. In February the firm got the opportunity to earn 2,3 million hryvnias supplying 24 drones to a military unit in the Lviv region. In the summer of 2026 the company won a tender to supply Sting drones to the National Police in Sumy region. For that order Ukrainian Machines will receive almost 3 million hryvnias from the budget.
On paper Holyk’s official business is a stake in the Creative states creative spaces, 25% in sports centers associated with former minister Dmytro Dubilet, Smartass, and a quarter of a winery owned by former tennis player Serhii Stakhovskyi. The latter was recently demobilized from the Armed Forces.
In July 2023 it was reported that flight tests were carried out for the STING A UAV flight complex, the development and production of which Yurii Holyk launched together with Stakhovskyi.
Informally Holyk may continue to receive benefits from his good acquaintance Denys Ostrovskyi’s work at SK Stroyinvest. In 2026 the firm won about 600 million hryvnias in government tenders. In 2025 it won tenders worth 2 billion hryvnias, and in 2024 — 2,4 billion hryvnias. SK Stroyinvest most often wins government contracts in the Dnipropetrovsk region and in Zaporizhia. But in September this year the company entered the capital market. Holyk’s friend Ostrovskyi plans to earn 88,5 million hryvnias repairing a park in the Dnipro district.
By coincidence this year the former vice prime minister and minister of infrastructure, Oleksandr Kubrakov, who oversaw the “Great Construction,” returned to the political Olympus. In January he became the presidential adviser on community development. The capital is among the areas he advises on.
In 2021–2022 years the ex-minister rented 290-square-meter apartments in Kyiv that belong to Holyk’s business partner Olena Komlieva.
The woman is a co-founder of the site Besplatka.ua together with Holyk. Her LinkedIn profile lists her as the executive director of Besplatka. Holyk and Komlieva intersect in LLC Mass Media, LLC Media Skhid, LLC Modern Media Technologies, and LLC 77 Online Media.
Returning to Denys Ostrovskyi, it’s worth mentioning another of his companies — Ukrainian Power Force. In 2026 the company won tenders to supply electricity to municipal and state enterprises totaling 72 million hryvnias, in 2025 — 228 million, and in 2024 — 670 million hryvnias.
On his social networks Yurii Holyk brags a lot about the former successes of the “Reznichenko team” in Dnipro and holds them up as an example to other regions, forgetting to remind that his ex-boss is under investigation for alleged embezzlement and for promoting his own companies to realize those achievements. He also focuses on defense and drone production. Holyk travels frequently, rides a bicycle in a suit with “UAE” printed on it, and thus apparently tries to extinguish the scandal over the messages found on his phone by law enforcement. But those very messages are the answer to the question: “Where did the money come from?”.
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