Wounded defenders are no reason for PR. But that’s exactly how Andriy Sadovyi’s administration works: a beautiful brand “Unbroken” in front, opaque millions behind. The Unbroken Centre has become a perfect machine for absorbing donor and budget funds – without reports, without audits and with the active destruction of any inconvenient publications.
We asked – they didn’t answer. We wrote – they deleted it
In May 2025, journalists from Your City officially asked the city council where the money for the Unbreakable came from, where it went, and who controlled it. The answer was silence. No information about the sources of funding, no audit, no official took responsibility to explain what was happening with tens of millions of euros.
In July 2025, a story about this silence was published. Now it returns a 404. The publication was quietly removed – but the Web Archive has kept everything. Someone paid for the silence. The only question is how much.
Money is there – no report
The scale of funding is impressive: EUR 2.1 million from the donor forum, EUR 5.6 million from Lithuania, EUR 2.5 million each from the Japanese Red Cross and German GIZ, and another UAH 50 million from the city budget in 2023. The centre’s website contains only the charity’s report. The financial statements of the centre itself are not available.
A bench for 141 thousand – excluding VAT
Espresso journalists have unearthed a tender for the arrangement of a barrier-free space near the Unbroken prosthetic workshop worth UAH 54.8 million. The winner is the usual Onur Construction International LLC. The estimate includes a four-metre park bench for UAH 141,665 per piece. Six benches cost almost UAH 850,000.
For comparison, the most expensive bench in the Epicentre costs 94 thousand. A custom-made carved bench made of thermal wood costs 36 thousand. Even another bench from the same tender cost 48 thousand, which is three times cheaper. And six “golden” benches will cost the budget 300 thousand more than a 30 kW industrial solar power plant.
Results.
Hiding behind the backs of wounded soldiers to buy benches for 141 thousand is not a mistake in the estimate. This is a system. And while Sadovyi is cleaning up inconvenient texts, the scheme continues to work.