A sewer line burst near the controversial residential complex in Osokorky, sewage is flowing into Lake Nebrezh

In the Darnytskyi district of the capital, a major municipal accident occurred – near the construction site of the residential complex H2O in Poznyaky, the central city collector ruptured. Sewage flooded the nearby area and entered a water body. This was reported by the EcoPark Osokorky community, according to Hlavkom.

According to activists, the accident happened on the evening of 4 November. Wastewater began seeping through the joints of a concrete trough covering the collector system and flowing into Lake Nebrez. On the third day after the rupture, a terrible smell of sewage pervades the area, detectable far beyond the accident site.

“Due to excessive load on Kyivvodokanal’s emergency service, in particular due to power outages, there was no rapid response or immediate actions to stop the influx of effluent into the water body,” the community notes.

The community notes that the central city collector consists of large-diameter pipes and an old gravity-fed concrete trough, which is officially in an emergency state. Extra destructive pressure on the aged networks is created by heavy equipment – concrete trucks and sand-laden trucks that constantly travel to the H2O residential complex construction site.

This is not the first such case. According to activists, an outlet from the collector occurred in winter during the developer’s connection of the residential network to the city sewer.

“And already at the end of spring, even before the water warmed in the lake, its condition sharply deteriorated. After taking samples, significant fecal impurities were found. Such a thing had never happened before,” the statement says.

Local residents urge municipal services to immediately take measures to stop the sewage leak and mitigate consequences, as the situation threatens a full ecological catastrophe for the popular Kyiv recreation site.

Post in the EcoPark Osokorky community

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Recall that in 2025 year, the public organization EcoPark Osokorky won a court ruling and obtained the cancellation of the DABI permit for the H2O residential complex construction (“Two lakes”). In the case EcoPark Osokorky vs. LLC Kontaktbudservis, the court noted that construction work was carried out without legal grounds and in violation of the law.

Hlavkom had previously reported that a recreational zone on the left bank of Kyiv is being attempted to be developed by the firm Stolitsa Group, linked to entrepreneur Vlada Molchanova. This organization undertook to build housing for affected Arkada bank investors. In exchange, Stolitsa Group would receive the right to build on a very valuable land plot in the capital – the EcoPark Osokorky area. The arrangement is recorded in a Memorandum, signatures including the Ministry of Regions and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This is while law enforcement should determine where the investors’ money went, and with those funds housing could be completed, not given for development of especially valuable lands of EcoPark.

Despite the prosecutor’s office approaching the government to urge the Cabinet to help find an alternative site for high-rises, the situation did not change. EcoPark Osokorky remains threatened by development. At the city council’s land committee in November 2024 year, deputies approved a document providing for the renewal of lease for two plots for Kontaktbudservis LLC, brought forward from the investor’s representatives. “For” votes came from almost all committee members. Only four deputies did not vote.

At the city council’s land committee in November 2024 year, deputies approved a document that provides for the renewal of lease for two plots for Kontaktbudservis LLC. It was brought forward by investor representatives. “For” votes came from almost all committee members. Only four deputies did not vote.

Roll-call vote of Kyiv City Council land committee members on a question backed by a representative of the developer EcoPark Osokorky

Kontaktbudservis belongs to companies that have no legal relation to the aforementioned Stolitsa Group LLC. Through the intermediary company Kontaktbudservis, it is registered to a Cyprus offshore, presumably with fictitious beneficiaries. As early as 2021 year, one of its beneficiaries was Kyiv City Council deputy Bohdana Tymoshchuk (Batkivshchyna). But companies with the same beneficiaries as in Kontaktbudservis take part in other Stolitsa Group construction projects.

That is, the renewal of land lease is de facto granted to companies that are not even signatories to the Memorandum and have no obligations toward the affected investors. Besides the developer and the aforementioned MVS and Ministry of Regions, signatories to the Memorandum included Kyiv authorities, the Security Service of Ukraine, and Dmitro Isayenko, a deputy elected from the now-prohibited OPPOS party.

photo: from Facebook of Sergei Lyubchenko

But such terms are not acceptable to the active residents of the capital, who created the EcoPark Osokorky initiative, notes Anna Adamchuk: “Under the pretext of finishing housing for Arkadivtsi, they will cut down a forest and floodplain meadows – a valuable ecosystem of the left-bank floodplain of the Dnieper, with rare natural habitats and flora and fauna representatives. In the life of the city, this green zone plays an extremely important ecological, recreational, and defensive role, protecting the southern part of Kyiv from enemy military equipment with a natural barrier of lakes, channels, and swamps.”

Nearby there is the Enerhiya waste processing plant, the Pozniaky district heating plant, and the Bortnytska aeration plant. Therefore nature here mitigates the negative impact of these facilities felt by Darnytskyi residents.

Earlier it was reported that the head of the President’s Office of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, has a joint construction business with Vadym Stolyar, elected from the banned OPPOS party. Before the full-scale war, his partner included Putin’s ally Viktor Medvedchuk. This was reported by Member of Parliament Geo Leros. According to the politician, the decision not to allow Stolyar to leave the country was allegedly connected with Yermak’s demand to rewrite his stake in the business to Andriy Kolyubaev, a friend of the head of the President’s Office. The businesses in question are ENSO and buD development.

In 2020 year, owners of these companies Vadym Stolar, Vlada Molchanova, and Yuriy Horovyi sold 60% of their businesses to Viktor Medvedchuk for $65 million. Later 10-12% ended up in the hands of Artyom Kolyuvayev. His involvement was brought in by Medvedchuk at the end of 2020 year “as part of settling relations with the Bank Office.” Due to the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion and the exchange of Medvedchuk, his share in this business remained “unassigned” and fully placed under Vadym Stolar’s control. As media reported, since the start of the invasion Vadym Stolar has been living on the French Riviera and became a subject of a journalist investigation on VIP refugees “Battalion Monaco.”