A Kyiv city council session has decided to withdraw a land plot for possible construction of a hotel in Babyi Yar from the layout of hotels to be built by 2010 based on Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi's veto imposed on the Kyiv Council resolution dated September 17 about construction of a hotel at 52-54, Melnykova Street, Shevchenkivskyi district.
In debating the issue Oles Dovhyi, Kyiv’s deputy mayor, said the administration had studied the situation to find out which of the officials had made a mistake in outlining the layout.
Chernovetskyi gave several officials a reprimand for negligence, inattention and mistakes made in preparing the layout for a hotel to be built near the monument to victims of Babyi Yar massacre, Dovhyi said.
As Ukrainian News reported, the Kyiv city council on September 17 approved the layout for building 255 hotels before 2020 including a hotel at 52-54, Melnykova Street next to the memorial complex Babyi Yar.
The matter got widely coverage through the mass media.
Israel expressed concern over possible construction of the hotel in Babyi Yar.
The Memory Of Babyi Yar Public Foundation considered the rumours to be exaggerated.
Chernovetskyi vetoed the clause of the Kyiv city council’s decision related to the hotel construction in the site of the memorial complex and promised to correct it.
Over 100,000 Kyivans and prisoners-of-war of various nationalities and religions were killed in Babyi Yar during the Great Patriotic War.
