Nazar Prykhodko reports on a vivid continuation of the story about access to Ukrainian subsoil for Gazprom’s friends, represented by the Czech MND, a company of Karel Komarek, a friend of Russian gas chekists, who, together with the Kozytskyi family, has now started gas exploration at the Zhukivska area near Poltava.
I remind you that I have filed crime reports with the SBU and NABU on this matter.
According to my sources in one of the ministries, the government will resign in the coming days. In this process, the heads of many state enterprises will be dismissed. In particular, my interlocutors note that the head of Ukrnafta, Serhiy Koretskyi, will be dismissed, and Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv Regional State Administration, will be appointed in his place. They say that the head of Naftogaz, Oleksiy Chernyshov, ran to the president to convince him of the candidate’s “efficiency” and “vast experience.”
However, I suspect that Mr. Chernyshov forgot to tell the president about the vast experience of the Kozytskyi family in collaborating with Gazprom’s long-time partner, Karel Komarek. The father of the head of the Regional State Administration owns Horizonty LLC, which bought the special permit for the Zhukivska area for a laughable 90 million UAH in 2021, at a time when Maksym Kozytskyi was already heading the Regional State Administration.
I suspect that Mr. Chernyshov forgot to tell the president about this obvious conflict of interest, which manifests itself not only in this case. As Georgiy Tuka calculated, analyzing ProZorro data, the companies of the Kozytskyi oil and gas group have won state tenders worth a “modest” sum of 7.5 billion UAH since 2017. The main customers were state-owned Ukrgazvydobuvannya and, yes, Ukrnafta, which they now want to place under Mr. Kozytskyi.
I have a question: how do we plan to win the war, and do we plan to, if access to Ukrainian subsoil is granted to a person (I mean Komarek) who, together with Gazprom, built a gas storage facility to bypass the Ukrainian gas transportation system and managed it with, attention, a former GRU resident in Syria, Sergey Tregub, and Gazprom deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev, a recipient of the “For the Liberation of Crimea and Sevastopol” medal, whom journalists of the German Welt am Sonntag called “Putin’s hand that rewards loyalists to Moscow and punishes traitors?” A person who, according to the SBU, owned the Samara oil terminal and several refineries in Russia and supplied resources directly to the “LPR” and “DPR.”
Maybe we should immediately invite Gazprom and Rosneft? Let them pump and refuel Russian tanks directly, not through Komarek. And let them refuel Russian tanks by processing hydrocarbons from Ukrainian fields?
I understand that Mr. Chernyshov did not tell the president about this. Nor about the pressure on the media and bloggers, calls, and letters recommending to “refute” the information about Komarek’s cooperation with the Russians and the Kozytskyi family’s ties with Komarek.
But you can’t hide the truth. Facts are stubborn things. Komarek’s cooperation with Gazprom lasted for 18 years. The Kozytskyi family’s cooperation with Komarek for almost 15. Let me emphasize that Komarek ended his official cooperation with Gazprom only now, under pressure from the UK authorities, where he is developing a lottery business. Until then, the daily deaths of Ukrainians were okay for Mr. Komarek. His joint company with the Russians referred to the Russian-Ukrainian war as a “conflict in Ukraine” in its report.
Do I understand correctly that Kozytskyi’s future appointment as head of Ukrnafta is related to the fact that Gazprom’s “former” partners do not have enough of the Zhukivska area and need Ukrnafta’s nationwide capacities?
Mr. Zelenskyy! I know that my blog is being monitored by the Presidential Office. I urge you to take control of this situation and prevent decisions that directly threaten national security!
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