Marhanets, a town where more than 40 thousand people lived before the full-scale war, has been terrorized by Russians for over three years. The town has frequent power and water shortages, and the residents suffer from regular artillery shelling and drone attacks from the occupied Enerhodar on the left bank of the Dnipro, which is seven kilometres away in a straight line.

While the town is struggling to survive, Hennadii Borovyk, the mayor of Marhanets, makes money. In a year and a half, the local “Agency of municipal services”, ensuring the heating for the critical infrastructure, has made over seventy agreements for a total of UAH 123 million, more than UAH 112 million of which were received by only four entrepreneurs, directly related to Borovyk.

NGL.media investigated how the provision for municipal needs can be transformed into one’s own business.