Prosecutor’s Office: Improper operation of tunnel between Demiivska and Lybidska metro stations caused its destruction - Prosecutor’s Office. VIDEO
The prosecutor's office has the results of an examination that refutes the statements of the Kyiv Metro municipal enterprise about the allegedly poor quality of the construction of tunnels between the flooded stations.
This was reported by Censor.NET with reference to the press centre of the Kyiv Prosecutor's Office.
What did the pre-trial investigation find?
Having analysed the information provided in the publication of the official portal of the Kyiv City Council of the Kyiv City State Administration, we would like to inform you that as part of the pre-trial investigation, which establishes the causes of the flooding of the tunnels between Demiivska and Lybidska metro stations, the prosecution has conducted a number of necessary examinations.
Expertise findings
The commission's construction and technical expertise concluded that the technical cause of the metro tunnel's collapse was its improper operation.
"The expert examination examined the quality of the tunnel construction, and no violations or any deviations that led to the pressure sealing disruption of this tunnel were found.
However, it has been established that measures to eliminate water ingress into the tunnel were carried out between March 2011 and December 2023 without the involvement of specialists from research institutes, metro construction, design and other organisations or individual specialists who would have established the causes of the damage and provided recommendations for their elimination," the statement said.
It is also reported that the officials of the Kyiv Metro municipal enterprise did not provide the results of any examinations or other documents on which their statements about poor design decisions during the construction of the tunnel between metro stations and the alleged deviations from the design decisions during the construction of the tunnel, which allegedly led to flooding, are based.
"We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the message of the Kyiv Metro municipal enterprise states that "the results of the research are currently being finalised", while in January 2024, the KCSA stated that it had received the first preliminary conclusions from the Scientific Research Forensic Institution.
However, even at the request of the investigation, officials of the Kyiv Metro municipal enterprise and the Kyiv City State Administration did not provide these conclusions to the pre-trial investigation body," the prosecutor's office said.
