Journalists uncovered a network of luxury vehicles registered to business entities and close associates of Hennadii Vatsak. Details of cases involving illegal sandstone extraction and tax evasion have also been revealed.
President claims anti-corruption bodies assured him that heads of the Interior Ministry and SBU are not involved in drug business cover-up schemes, but promises further personnel decisions.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported an enemy UAV attack on a healthcare facility in the Nemishlyanskyi district of the capital of Sloboda Ukraine.
The Avtozavodskyi District Court of Kremenchuk granted investigators temporary access to banking information. This was done to identify the perpetrators who withdrew nearly 333,000 hryvnia from the accounts of a local resident.
Oleksandr Hanzha reported enemy strikes on the city on 14 November; the consequences of the incident are being assessed.
The renowned actor of the Ivan Franko Theatre has passed away at the age of 80. Colleagues remembered him as a sincere, kind, and bright person.
Law enforcement officers detained a man who broke into an apartment in Ternopil and stole the savings of the owner, who had just sold her property.
The Kherson City Court found Vasyl Kurylenko guilty of collaborationism for working in an illegal institution on occupied territory. He was also stripped of his rank and banned from holding state positions.
Lesya Zaburanna has been appointed head of the Temporary Investigative Committee (TIC), which is investigating the situation regarding the construction of protective structures. She is known as a friend of Mykola Kalashnyk, the Minister for the Restoration of Ukraine.
The minister did not attend the committee’s latest meeting. It is worth noting that in 2019, Lesya Zaburanna ran for the Verkhovna Rada in electoral district No. 216. This district included part of Darnytskyi district in Kyiv, where Kalashnyk was serving as head of the district state administration apparatus at the time.
TIC member and MP Oleksiy Kucherenko published the results of the committee’s meeting. According to him, none of the 26 planned shelter facilities for energy installations have been completed.
Reports cite an average completion rate of approximately 55 per cent, although the methodology for calculating this figure remains unknown.
Certificates for completed work have been provided for only 15 per cent of the total project value. The initial cost of the works was approximately UAH 1.8 billion, with advance payments reaching roughly UAH 750 million.
The initial schedule envisaged the handover of all facilities by 1 October 2026. However, this plan has been changed three times, and deadlines have not been met on any occasion.
Currently, the contractor is claiming the need for additional funding of UAH 400 million.
The General Staff’s verdict on some of the projects states: «проєкти не враховують ймовірного ураження БПЛА» ("projects do not account for the probable impact of UAVs").
According to Kucherenko, the design work was carried out «на коліні» ("on the knee"): no projects existed prior to the start of construction works and funding.
Two companies, linked to a single ultimate owner — Ms Liubomyr Kozhushko — were selected as general contractors on a non-competitive basis. There are signs of their affiliation, as the same individual attended all meetings on their behalf.
Ms Kozhushko is featured in investigations into price inflation in subcontracts for the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection (DSZI) and in the construction of a radiation shelter for the Kryukivshchyna “Lider” lyceum.
The client of the works, the Department of Regional Development, claims that the order to conclude agreements with these companies was received from Ruslan Oliinyk, the First Deputy Head of the Kyiv Oblast Military Administration (KOVA).
The key subcontractor for the supply of metal and other structural components was crocodile owner Volodymyr Sokolov (clarified by the author as Vladyslav — VM). Meanwhile, according to the general contractors, no formal contracts exist with his entities.
Despite the lack of documentation, he participated in all meetings and provided verbal guarantees of timely material supply.
The entire system of relations between the client and the contractors was built primarily on verbal agreements and promises.
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