An unfinished Sky Towers complex on Beresteysky Prospekt in Kyiv has finally found a buyer after six failed or cancelled auctions. The winner of the OpenMarket bidding was LLC "Tech Invest Supply Plus" owned by Roman Chumak, who paid 560.47 million hryvnias. For this sum, you couldn't buy even a few elite apartments in new construction in Kyiv — but you can get an unfinished 47-story skyscraper with a total area of over 200,000 square meters.
Who is really behind the deal
Roman Chumak is not just an entrepreneur with spare cash. Until July 2025, through his company "Finance Accounting Consult," he controlled the financial company "Universal Company," which was later renamed Skyfol Finance and transferred to Anna and Karina Zlochevsky — daughters of Mykola Zlochevsky, founder of Burisma Group and former ecology minister.
The Zlochevsky family has been actively buying real estate in recent years. As LB.ua reported, in December 2023, a company connected to them, "Comfort Capital," purchased over 5,500 square meters of historic buildings in Podil. Now — potentially Ukraine's tallest skyscraper.
The Zlochevsky sisters are officially listed among the owners of "Comfort Capital," and the shareholder composition also includes "Poltava Drilling Company" from the Burisma group.
LB.ua, December 2023
A price that speaks for itself
In 2021, Ukreximbank put Sky Towers up for auction at 7.1 billion hryvnias. There were no buyers. Then came 5.6 billion, 1.1 billion, 937 million, 772 million, 662 million. Each new auction showed: the market either didn't believe in the project or was waiting for the right price. Ultimately, the property went for 560 million — that is, 12.5 times cheaper than the initial assessment.
Meanwhile, completion is a separate cost item. According to Andriy Ozeichuk, director of engineering and construction company Rauta, to bring the complex up to standard, approximately 91,680 square meters still need to be built. At a cost of $1,000 per square meter — that's a minimum of $91.7 million for construction alone, not including finishing and infrastructure.
What is this facility
Construction of Sky Towers was launched by KDD Group in 2007. The project envisioned two towers — 47 and 34 stories — retail space of 7,100 sq. m, an underground parking garage for 935 vehicles, and a fitness center. By 2014, over 20 floors had been built, then construction stopped. Today, the facility is approximately 40–51% complete, depending on the assessment methodology.
- Land plot area: 0.74 hectares
- Total construction area: over 219,000 sq. m
- Office space in the project: 125,000 sq. m
- Current completion: ~40–51%
- Estimated completion cost: from $91 million
In 2021, Ukreximbank won a court case over credit debt and gained ownership of the unfinished building. The bank initiated all subsequent auctions — and ultimately sold the asset at a price that doesn't even cover the cost of completion.
Questions without answers
Zlochevsky is a man who was declared wanted in 2015 for illicit enrichment, and two years later all cases were closed. His gas business disappeared after the Burisma and Hunter Biden scandal. Now the family is building a real estate portfolio in Kyiv — quietly, through a chain of legal entities.
If the new owner truly intends to complete Sky Towers, he must attract at least $90–100 million in additional financing — and do so during wartime, when office real estate in Kyiv stands half-empty. The question is not whether there will be enough money: if construction doesn't begin within a year or two, it will mean the asset was purchased not to build.
