In Poltava, 55 Million Hryvnias Were Spent on a Housing Project for Displaced Persons, but Construction Never Began

In Poltava, 55 million hryvnias were spent on a housing project for displaced persons, but construction never began

In Poltava, on Lazurna Street, a residential complex for internally displaced persons was planned back in 2022, eight six-story buildings with 900 apartments. They expected to attract state funding for construction with an estimated cost of over 2,1 billion hryvnias. However, after more than four years the project did not move on to constructing the residential buildings. Meanwhile, more than 55 million hryvnias were spent on project documentation, expert reviews, and preparatory work.

This was reported by “Kolo.news (Poltava News).”

The housing construction program for displaced persons was initiated by the Office of the President of Ukraine in the summer of 2022. It provided for building new apartment buildings and purchasing finished apartments from developers in 15 regions of Ukraine, including in the Poltava region.

In Poltava, a plot of land of 7 hectares was chosen in the future Lazurnyi neighborhood and another 4,4 hectares on the site of former artillery warehouses. Initially, eight six-story buildings with green zones, playgrounds, and a landscaped territory were to be built there. The project envisioned 900 apartments with a total residential area of about 28,5 thousand sq. m. The housing could have accommodated approximately 1140 people, including families with children, pensioners, and people with disabilities.

On the DREAM portal the estimated cost of the project is 2,15 billion hryvnias.

In June of 2022, then-head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration Dmytro Lunyn stated that construction was planned to be completed by the end of the year. In February 2023, Lunyn reported that water and power networks had already been brought to the site, but construction had not started due to lack of funding.

After his resignation in October 2023, Filip Pronin and Volodymyr Kohut led the Poltava region. However, during their tenure the construction of the residential complex still did not begin.

In July 2026 the current head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration, Vitalii Diakivnych, told journalists that the project had been divided into three parts.

According to Prozorro, nearly four years passed between the first and last published procurements related to the project. The last of the tenders, in November 2025, concerned the expert review of project documentation.

Almost 9,4 million hryvnias were allocated for design and expert reviews. If survey work and document adjustments are also taken into account, total preparatory costs for construction exceeded 15 million hryvnias.

Separately, journalists analyzed payments to main contractors according to the Spending portal. The Poltava RMA Department transferred 35,71 million hryvnias to PP “Poltava Budkompleks.” LLC “Ukrbildinvest” received at least 8,26 million hryvnias for works related to housing construction on Lazurna Street.

Overall, as of August, 55,3 million hryvnias were spent on implementing the project.

Author: Hanna Kysliakova, “Nashi Hroshi”