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Damaged building on Drahomanova Street in Kyiv 9 Ichnia 2026 year.
240 drones, 36 rockets, four dead and damaged critical infrastructure. These are the figures for the massive attack on Kyiv 9 January 2026 year, which left some districts without heating and water supply. Six days after that strike, on 15 January, Kyiv police opened proceedings on official negligence that caused severe consequences.
During the investigation, the police and the SBU seized documents related to the capital’s preparations for operating under attack conditions, protection of critical infrastructure facilities, and related procurements. The names of institutions in the court rulings are anonymized, but the context of the rulings indicates they concern the Kyiv City Council and the Kyiv City State Administration and their subordinate enterprises. In particular, the case involves PJSC "AK "Kyivvodokanal" and the municipal enterprise "Kyivteploenerho".
What is being investigated
The case contains conclusions from experts involved in analyzing the documents. They found that the city’s development strategy and municipal programs were updated “with significant delay.” Also, despite funds being available in the budget, the city did not ensure “proper funding for critical infrastructure operators.” Because of this, the deadlines for completing the work were pushed to the end of 2026 year.
The investigation calls the consequences power, water, and heat outages from 09.01.2026. The damage was estimated at 29,15 million UAH of unplanned expenses. Of that, 11,48 million UAH was assistance to 287 Kyiv residents whose apartments were damaged, 14,02 million UAH was expenses of communal housing administrations, 1,51 million UAH was the state budget, and 2,14 million UAH was funds of the joint-stock company.
Regarding the municipal enterprises, investigators obtained access to primary documents (acts/estimates/commercial proposals) of the municipal enterprise "Kyivteploenerho" concerning construction of engineering protection for the CHP, backup power supply and installation of a cogeneration unit, purchase of power equipment, and so on.
The most detailed procurement descriptions in the rulings concern Kyivvodokanal purchases that could be identified from the rulings. All of them were aimed at providing backup power for water supply and sewage.
Potential collusion and prices
The ruling mentions the purchase of nine diesel generators for 243,41 million UAH from 19.12.2025. This was a direct procurement highlighted by Nashi Hroshi. The investigation believes the technical specifications for them “have certain discriminatory features relative to other manufacturers.”
Also, to operate these generators, the vodokanal signed three contracts for equipment worth 58,85 million UAH that, according to the investigation, were supplied at prices inflated by 20–30%. The company that received these contracts is LLC "Enerdzhihroup." The ruling also states that the contractor and the vodokanal arranged an “illegal mechanism” aimed at misappropriating budget funds.
The described scheme looked like this. First, the contractor was given 18 direct contracts worth 9,46 million UAH for designing backup power, and later it received seven construction contracts totaling 320,69 million UAH. The company was the sole participant in those tenders, and the investigation believes this “indicates prior collusion” and “artificial creation of anti-competitive actions.” Also, according to the investigation, “Enerdzhihroup” plans to supply Schneider Electric converters of Chinese manufacture at a markup of 15–20%.
Profile of the companies
Overall, in the Prozorro system there are currently 57 contracts of Kyivvodokanal with Enerdzhihroup totaling 599,64 million UAH. Thus, the vodokanal became the company’s largest client. The same firm is also a top contractor for several regional power companies and was mentioned in a piece about the redistribution of the transformer market.
LLC "Enerdzhihroup" was registered at the end of 2015 year in Dnipro under the name "Best Production." In spring 2016 year the company changed its name, relocated to Kharkiv, and came under its current owner and director, Maksym Desiatkov.
The firm’s portfolio of contracts totals 3,94 billion UAH. Of that sum, 2,13 billion UAH accounts for eight regional power companies, seven of which are part of the state group JSC "Ukrainian Distribution Networks" (URM).
Desiatkov also manages and co-owns LLC "Estate Energy" together with Iryna Harmash. Iryna Harmash is the wife of Andriy Harmash (former head of the municipal enterprise "Kharkiv Metro," who since 2024 year has held a leadership position in the Construction Department of Kharkiv City Council).
Until September this year, the co-founder of "Estate Energy" was Viktoriia Belotska. She is the wife of Oleksii Belotsky, who in August 2026 year was appointed acting CEO of the state URM.
Before that, Belotsky worked as director of the Capital Construction Department of Kharkiv Regional State Administration, was an advisor to KHODA on infrastructure development issues, head of the economics and finance direction at JSC "Ukrainian Distribution Networks," and an advisor to the minister. Since November 2023 year he held the position of deputy general director of JSC "Ukrainian Energy Machines."
Also, Enerdzhihroup is located in the same building as JSC "Ukrainian Energy Machines," where from November 2023 year until July 2026 year Belotsky was deputy general director.
Apart from the Kyiv case, Enerdzhihroup’s contracts were seized during searches in a criminal proceeding concerning the procurement of cogeneration units for the municipal enterprise "Kharkiv Heat Networks."
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