Sadovyi will sue Jarosław Kaczyński for defamation

Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi announced his intention to take legal action over baseless accusations made by Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the Polish opposition party “Law and Justice.” The Polish politician criticized the Ukrainian official’s alleged participation in the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC2026) in Gdańsk and accused him of failing to pay a Polish company for work performed. 

Sadovyi refuted Kaczyński’s claims and noted that on the day of the conference, he was in Düsseldorf, Germany, to sign an agreement to join the UNBROKEN Cities network. 

The mayor of Lviv also denied reports of outstanding debt to the Polish contractor Control Process S.A., which was supposed to build a waste processing plant but systematically failed to fulfill the terms of the contract and missed deadlines. According to the mayor, the company received over €30 million for all work actually completed, and the Lviv City Council did not pay for unfulfilled obligations, which is why it had previously officially terminated the contract.

This was reported in a Facebook post by Sadovyi.

In 2021, the State Inspectorate for Architecture and Urban Planning granted permission to build a waste processing plant in Lviv with a capacity of 240,000 metric tons of waste per year. It will be located near the “Lvivvodokanal” wastewater treatment facilities. Following an international tender, Control Process S.A., one of Poland’s largest construction companies, won the right to build the plant. 

Poland sharply criticized Lviv’s decision to terminate the contract with the Polish company for the construction of the waste processing plant. They called this move unfriendly and even intervened at the diplomatic level. Mayor Andriy Sadovyi responded that the contractor had missed deadlines and demanded additional funds, so the city acted in the community’s best interests.