Recently, the occupation “Sevastopol press” reported on coastal development in the area of Abramov Bay and Soldatsky Beach near the “Admiral’s Lagoon” apartment complex, as announced by the occupation “authorities” in a “directive” dated March 26.
This land was transferred 20 years ago by the Sevastopol City Council to the firm “Apogey-A.”
In the early years of the occupation, the “new authorities” sought to “terminate the contract” through the “courts,” but in 2018, under then-gauleiter Dmitry Ovsyannikov, now a British citizen, they “concluded a new lease” with the “Russian namesake” of the lessee until July 2027.
Furthermore, after another change of gauleiter, the plot was again attempted to be “returned to the city” through the “courts,” but this came to nothing.
“Apogey-A”, in turn, “subleased” the plot to the “Admiralskaya Laguna” “Special Developer”, a company part of the “Interstroy” group of Crimean collaborator Yevgeny Kabanov, under the nominee Sergei Nebesny, through the Simferopol-based “Interstroy Management”.
With the start of this “sublease” with “respected individuals,” the construction of yet more “elite apartments” for Russian colonizers has clearly accelerated.
The aforementioned “press” also claims that “Apogey-A” owns another plot of land nearby, near Cape Tolsty, with a similar “legal history” and also with development potential.
Notably, the occupation “press” also makes no secret of “Apogey-A” ownership of the UK firm “Ecofront Projects LLP”.
But despite such a turbulent and corrupt history with the developers, the “Sevastopol authorities” did not “nationalize” this structure, “owned by the beneficiary of a hostile country,” unlike many other “preferred targets.”
It should be noted that in Ukrainian registries, “Apogey-A” LLC, code 32880830, with director Sergey Kononenko from Dnipro, has indeed listed “Ecofront Projects LLP” as its founder since 2004. The Dnipro firm “Park Zdorovya” is also registered to Kononenko.
The Sevastopol address of this company matches the location of “Apogey-A”, a structure “registered” by the occupiers. Its “director” is listed as Vladimir Sennikov, and its “founder” is still “Ecofront Projects LLP”.
The history of the British company “Ecofront Projects LLP,” number OC336647, is quite remarkable. From 2014 to 2023, it repeatedly changed its legal address, from Herefordshire to Cardiff, and so on, and was then liquidated, nothing about which is recorded in either the Ukrainian registries or the “registries” of the occupiers.
Until 2012, the founders of this structure were two firms from the British Virgin Islands, “Ireland & Overseas Acquisitions Ltd” and “Milltown Corporate Services Ltd.”
Until 2019, the co-founders of this structure were namesakes of these firms, but registered in Belize, as well as four firms from the Marshall Islands: “Primecross Inc,” “Cargowest AG,” “Overlux AG,” and “Formond Inc.”
But most interestingly, as of 2017, the British registry listed Svitlana Vatchenko, a Ukrainian from Dnipro, as the person that “has significant influence or control” for “Ecofront Projects LLP”, a fact anyone can verify in a couple of minutes.
Again, we repeat, the occupiers, as well as the structures of developer Yevhen Kabanov, are entirely satisfied with this state of affairs.
In Ukrainian registries, Svitlana Vatchenko is listed as the owner of the commercially active companies “Ukrpromspetsproekt” and the significant sports club “Meteor”, with revenues of 9 million in 2024. According to open sources, Viktoria Dubovenko, a lawyer from Dnipro, received funds from these companies.
At the same time, Vatchenko’s “full namesake” is an employee of the “Oles Honchar Dnipro State University” and, by a strange coincidence, writes academic papers on British literature, primarily on the “English anti-colonialist novel.”
And at the same “Ukrpromspetsproekt”, until 2014, the director was a “full namesake” of the permanent director of Apogey-A, Sergei Kononenko.
Thus, this story, clearly closely connected to the one described by the former “deputy prime minister” of the occupiers, Yevgeny Kabanov, gives both Ukrainian and British authorized services much to consider.
