The director of the municipal enterprise accused the former vice mayor of deception, and he replied: "corrupt scoundrel" - scandal over the technopark in the Korabelnyi district

In Mykolaiv, an attempt to implement a large energy project with international funds turned into an open conflict among officials right during a city council session. The case concerns the construction of solar power plants, which have now been decided to be radically changed — and this sparked an outcry among the deputies.

At the session of the Mykolaiv City Council on April 9, 2026, deputies urgently considered and approved changes to the project financed under a grant agreement with NEFCO for €7.2 million. If it was previously planned to build three separate solar plants, they have now been combined into one — with a capacity of 9.9 MW on a 25-hectare site in the Korabelnyi district.

The presenter was the director of KP “Mykolaivoblteploenerho”, Mykola Logvinov, who explained that initially three locations were envisaged: 42 Samoylovych Street, 36 Vodopiina Street and the industrial park “Energia”. However, he said that already in the autumn of 2025 it became clear that there are lawsuits regarding the park — the city council is accused of illegal land seizure. Because of this, implementing the project on that territory became impossible.

Logvinov emphasized that while preparing the feasibility study it became clear that the industrial park effectively exists only on paper and has serious legal problems. Moreover, part of the land overlaps with older allocations for gardening cooperatives dating back to the Zhovtneva District Administration. As a result, the city decided to lease another plot and combine the three projects into one large project — according to the head of the municipal enterprise, this is cheaper and more efficient.

He also clarified that other projects are already being implemented on the other planned plots. In particular, on Vodopiina Street a solar plant with a capacity of 0.5 MW is already under construction. The new consolidated project is planned to be implemented over three years, but the city council says it will try to complete it before the next heating season. In May they are to hold a tender for the designer and the contractor.

Despite the decision being supported, the discussion turned into an open conflict. Deputy Olena Kiselova proposed to strip the municipal enterprise director of his bonus, questioning his responsibility for the situation. In response, Mykola Logvinov said he did not consider himself guilty and shifted responsibility onto the former deputy mayor Oleksandr Omelchuk, accusing him of misleading the city council during the creation of the industrial park.

The mayor, Oleksandr Senkevych, said the situation would be investigated and promised to report the results of the inquiry.

Oleksandr Omelchuk himself, who currently serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, publicly responded to these accusations on social media, harshly criticizing the municipal enterprise head and hinting at manipulations by the city authorities.

He commented on the situation after hearing the accusations addressed to him during the session:

“Today one corrupt scoundrel, who profits from people by applying unlawful heat tariffs, used my name in his deceitful rhetoric. To state the facts: the land plot for the municipal industrial park ‘Energia’ was formed in accordance with the decision of the Mykolaiv City Council session from available reserve lands… There were no other previously allocated plots there and there could not have been any… Perhaps that is why they invented a scheme to fog the deputies’ minds…”

According to him, all decisions regarding the creation of the park were made lawfully, and the current situation may be an attempt to change the land’s designated purpose for the new project — this time for a solar power plant.

The history of the industrial park “Energia” in the Korabelnyi district has been going on for several years and from the very beginning was a sensitive issue for local residents. As early as 2017, the city planned to allocate 63 hectares of land for the industrial park between Oleh Olzhych Street and the industrial zone along Samoylovych Street, near the end of Okeanivska Street.

On this territory for many years there were gardens of former workers of the “Okean” plant, which people effectively used but did not manage to formalize properly. Later the project area was adjusted, and already in 2018 the city council adopted a decision to create the “Energia” park on 36 hectares exactly on the site of these gardens. Back then the park was presented as a major platform for industrial development and new jobs, but the project never really launched, and in March 2024 the Cabinet of Ministers removed “Energia” from the state register of industrial parks due to the absence of a creation and operation agreement and failure to submit reports.

We wrote on this topic:

• In the Korabelnyi district of Mykolaiv they want to allocate 63 ha for an industrial park
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Previously reported:

• Was heating turned off because of debts? Heat utility workers owe “Naftogaz” and complain about frozen tariffs for the population
• Soon the boilers of Mykolaiv will shine like EU solar panels
• No gas and no light? In Mykolaiv they look for ways to survive, while Denmark gives millions for solar energy
• “Mykolaivoblteploenerho” will spend over UAH 47 million on solar stations despite million-level debts
• Never before — and again: the Cabinet removed “Energia” in Korabelnyi from the Register of Industrial Parks