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The Ukrainian businessman, the owner of DCH Group, Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, who previously reconstructed Kharkiv International Airport, will update the international airport in Dnipro.

Such information was confirmed by Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov.

“Yes, indeed, I’m doing this. Yes, there will be new airport,” he wrote on his Facebook page.

In addition, a source close to the talks told Interfax-Ukraine that negotiations on participation in the renovation of the airport were also held with businessman Ihor Kolomoisky. The latter is the co-owner of Privat Financial and Industrial Group, which owns Galtera, to which in 2009 the State Property Fund sold 94.572 percent in Dniproavia, which manages Dnipro airport.

Filatov, among other things, said that the implementation of the project will be controlled by President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

DCH Group for the 20 years of work in Ukraine has developed various investment projects, including UkrSibbank, sold to the international group BNP Paribas, Cherkasy Azot, Kyivstar, the preparation of the Kharkiv infrastructure for Euro 2012. The current priority areas of the business group are finance, construction materials production, construction, development, hotel business. The structure of DCH’s assets is represented, in particular, by Kharkiv International Airport, Kharkiv Palace Hotel, and the Karavan trade and entertainment center network.