Construction of a new apartment block is under way on Tsentralna Street in Borodianka, the Restoration Agency (the State Agency for Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine) reported. The previous building was destroyed in the fighting at the start of russia’s full-scale invasion. Its structures were in such a critical state that restoration was impossible, so the ruins were dismantled and construction started from scratch.

The new building is being built for 105 families. It will have three sections, nine floors and a basement level. The basement will house technical rooms, an underground car park and a radiation shelter designed for 287 people at a time. Every design decision provides for accessibility of the building and its premises for people with limited mobility.

Workers tying rebar on the construction site on Tsentralna Street in BorodiankaPhoto: Restoration Agency
Workers tie the rebar of the future walls; behind them is a neighbouring high-rise on Tsentralna Street.

What has been done on site

Temporary utility networks are already in place, and the pile foundation and foundation slabs have been installed. Builders are now reinforcing the vertical structures, mounting formwork and casting monolithic reinforced-concrete walls and pylons. Step by step, the frame of the basement and ground floor is taking shape, and the structures are being prepared for concreting.

Next comes the monolithic frame, floor slabs and walls, the laying of utility networks, and then interior and exterior finishing.

A worker standing on the basement wall takes a load from the cranePhoto: Restoration Agency
A worker on the basement wall takes a load from the crane.

The building that became a symbol of the destruction

The new nine-storey block is rising at 359 Tsentralna Street. As the Restoration Agency recalled when work began, on 2 March 2022 russian troops dropped bombs on seven high-rise buildings on Tsentralna Street and also fired on them from tanks and armoured vehicles. Among them was a nine-storey building with three entrances: after the air raid only ruins remained, people sheltering in the basement were buried under the rubble, and the occupiers did not allow it to be cleared. The site could be fully cleared only after the liberation.

New construction on the site began in June 2025. As the Agency reported in November, by then the piles had been driven, the ground between them levelled and the foundation slab laid, after which the crews moved on to the vertical frame of the basement, its monolithic walls and pylons. The project is being implemented by the Ministry for Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine, the Restoration Agency and the Kyiv Regional Military Administration; the regional administration has also published an update on the progress.

A forest of rebar for the future walls on the construction site in BorodiankaPhoto: Restoration Agency
A forest of rebar: this is what the future walls of the new building look like from the inside.

As a reminder, in early September two more buildings were restored in Borodianka: 106 flats and a solar plant for backup power.

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