More than four years after Bucha's liberation, the apartment block at 101 Zakhysnykiv Ukrainy St. (formerly Vokzalna) still is not fully restored. The building was damaged by shelling in spring 2022: fire, burnt-out flats, destroyed floors. In July 2023 the Regional Development Department of the Kyiv Oblast Military Administration commissioned Nidkom LLC to carry out the overhaul — for over UAH 91 million, with a deadline of late 2023.

The details appear in the report by TheBuchaCity from a meeting between residents, the client and the contractor.

Since then the contract has been amended more than ten times: deadlines extended, scopes adjusted, and the sum, per Prozorro, cut to UAH 69.67 million. For half a year work effectively stalled without funding — only in late June did the contractor receive almost UAH 7 million from the administration, and the site came back to life. The facade is insulated, windows replaced, lifts installed — but residents complain the new lifts do not work, entrances are unfinished, and a mound of construction waste keeps growing in the yard.

The most painful issue is the ramp at entrance five. A wheelchair user lives here who has been unable to leave his flat on his own for four years: the ramp design had to be reworked because of the building's tricky structure. An outdoor ramp is now promised by the end of July.

At the July 7 meeting, administration representative Vasyl Kozachuk and Nidkom director Maksym Lazarenko promised to remove the debris within a week, finish the entrances, fix the yard and complete everything by the end of September 2026. Yet amendment No. 13, published on Prozorro, stretches the new schedule to December 31, 2027. Residents can only hope that this time the promises outweigh the paperwork.

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