Lviv City Council has appealed to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, calling for the dispute over the construction of a waste processing plant in Lviv to be resolved exclusively within the legal framework, without political or diplomatic pressure.
As stated at the plenary session by councillor Nazarii Berbeka, the appeal concerns the waste processing plant project, for which the general contractor was the Polish company Control Process S.A. The City Council recalls that, after missed implementation deadlines and breaches of contractual obligations, the contract with the contractor was terminated.
During the discussion, Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi noted that the city has “dozens of examples of high-quality work by Polish businesses in Ukraine”, but in his view, the situation with this contractor cannot serve as a model to follow and should not be accompanied by pressure on the city or the government in the interests of a single company.
The appeal recalls that on 7 August 2025 Lviv City Council had already written to Donald Tusk, drawing attention to the systematic non-fulfilment of the contract terms, which repeatedly jeopardised the implementation of a project of strategic importance for the city. It is emphasised there that the Polish government is not a party to the contract, although the project had symbolic significance as one of the largest contracts of a Polish contractor in Ukraine.
The new letter states that, despite numerous compromises on the part of the city, the situation has not improved. Lviv City Council categorically rejects the claims by representatives of the contractor about alleged attempts by Lviv to worsen Polish-Ukrainian relations, pointing out that the issue concerns the use of public funds for which the city is accountable to the community and international partners.
In the text of the appeal, the city calls for refraining from attempts to draw Lviv’s Polish partner cities into this dispute and from using inter-municipal relations as a tool of pressure. It is stressed that such actions will only damage the atmosphere of trust, and granting preferences to a company that has failed to fulfil a contract is unacceptable.
Lviv City Council underlines that such commercial disputes must be resolved under the procedures of the international contract, and not through political or diplomatic influence, as this is what corresponds to European principles of doing business and partnership.
On his social media page, Andrii Sadovyi added that the Lviv community has already paid more than 30 million euros for the work carried out, yet the project is still not completed, and these are not private investments but city funds. According to him, there is information about attempts by certain Polish officials to send letters to Lviv’s Polish partner cities and involve them in lobbying the contractor’s interests, as well as attempts to put pressure on the Ukrainian government with calls to continue cooperation with a company that has not fulfilled its contract.
The Mayor considers such actions utterly unacceptable and stresses that this is a matter of responsibility, reputation and compliance with signed agreements, not of international politics or inter-municipal friendship.