British investor Somkhishvili, who has been seeking justice in Ukraine for years, has made an official appeal to Zelensky

Dear Mr. President,

In this difficult time for Ukraine, I must openly address you with a question about a situation that should not have occurred in the country either during war or peaceful times.

When I approached you in September 2021 about the situation in which I, as a citizen of Great Britain and investor, found myself in Ukraine, you responded that it was a consequence of the unreformed courts of Ukraine and that the court system would change for the better in the future. It is clear that the war has hindered the reform of Ukrainian courts, but as my experience has shown, it is not only the courts, but also the way the local authorities of the city of Kyiv treat foreign investors.

In 2007, together with a global institutional investor, the type of investor you are now trying to attract to Ukraine for the country's future reconstruction, I entered into an investment project with the city authorities for reconstruction of Kharkiv square  in the city of Kyiv . Today, such projects are called public-private partnerships. However, the attitude that I have encountered and continue to encounter from the city of Kyiv authorities can be called many things, but it is not a partnership.

While the investment project was in operation, I had the opportunity to see all the circles of bureaucratic hell that a private investor can face: actions that included both sabotage of the project and outright violation of obligations to the investor. This is despite the fact that during the project's existence, the city received more than $14 million from me, and to fulfill my obligations as an investor, I financed the engagement of the best European architects and infrastructure professionals. In the course of my investment project, I