All news on the topic: Kryvyi Rih

While the “Great Construction” was being praised as a success, budgets on individual objects were inflated many times over.

The assets of the state-run “Giprokoks,” responsible for designing coke-chemical plants, have been seized by a Slovak firm linked to Kostyantyn Karamanyts, a Kryvyi Rih businessman with ties to Ukraine’s political elite, encompassing patents, trademarks, and technical staff.

Documents and first-person accounts reveal how a quickly organized evacuation by a private charity left hundreds of Ukrainian children in a Turkish seaside town with little supervision.