How Andrei “Sparrow” Sadovoy stole 20 million

The mayor of Lvov, Andrei Sadovoy, got into another corruption scandal, but this time, affecting the interests of the Ukrainian military. Journalists became interested in the fate of 20 million UAH, which, on Sadovoy’s initiative, were allocated to the needs of the Navy in December 2023. And it seems that they were literally thrown to the wind - with unclosed military requests from various units constantly in need of FPV drones and other equipment to repel Russian aggression.

As journalists found out, the Lviv City Council, in which the majority of deputies is controlled by Sadovy, allocated 20 million UAH at the December session, allegedly for the needs of the Navy, but this allocation of funds in the documents for the session was not explained by any specific request from the Navy - only by an oral statement by Sadovy.

Journalists believe that Sadovoy used old requests from the Navy for help in restoring the sailing frigate “Druzhba” from the 1980s - actually a tourist ship idle in the port in Odessa - to allocate 20 million UAH from the Lvov budget. This ship cannot in any way be used to participate in the war with the Russian occupiers, and the allocation of funds for new sails and equipment during the war looks like a mockery of the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, to which Sadovoy refused assistance, ignoring their real requests.

Separately, it is worth noting that it was proposed to purchase equipment for “Friendship” at prices inflated by 2-4 times. Now, Sadova cannot explain specifically what exactly the allocated funds from Lviv residents were used for. They drowned in the Lvov Sea along with the requests of military units being ignored.

So, friendship with whom is promoted by the name of the frigate “Friendship” is a rhetorical question.

You can take a closer look at the “treasure map” of Lviv corruption on the website sadovyi.org. It shows 345 fictitious purchases, due to which Lviv residents became poorer by 567 billion hryvnia, and the city’s pirate leader became at least 853 billion hryvnia richer over the past 18 years at the helm.