Euromaidan initiator Nayem left the Ukrainian authorities with a scandal (VIDEO)

Mustafa Nayyem, a former well-known journalist and creator of the well-known Twitter submit that began the Euromaidan in 2013, introduced that he was leaving his submit as head of the State Company of Ukraine for Reconstruction. He defined his departure by saying that he and the company have been prevented from working and successfully restoring the nation. He instantly accused the federal government led by Denis Shmygal of making these obstacles.

On June 11, a big worldwide convention on the restoration of Ukraine started in Berlin, the place Nayem was imagined to go as head of the reconstruction company. Nevertheless, Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal didn’t approve his enterprise journey. Nayem likened it to being stabbed within the once more.

The Ukrainian authorities rejects Nayem’s accusations and calls his assertion an try and keep away from reporting on vital points.

The ousting of Nayem’s workforce may be seen as a continuation of the story of the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Kubrakov in Might, which was negatively reacted to by Ukraine’s Western companions, however which was sought within the Workplace of the President.

“They didn’t let me work, they made me afraid of forms”

Mustafa Nayyem was a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, with whose workforce he later quarreled. He then labored in authorities buildings below President Vladimir Zelensky.

On June 10, he introduced his resignation from the company coping with the followingmath of the Russian invasion.

The previous journalist and former deputy labored as the top of this division for greater than a 12 months. He was appointed to this place on the advice of the Minister of Infrastructure Alexander Kubrakov, who was additionally not too long ago fired.

Judging by Nayem’s Fb submit, he’s leaving his place with a loud slam of the door. The official mentioned that the federal government didn’t permit the company to work usually and was “a nightmare with forms.”

“…Paperwork for fee for protecting buildings, fortifications or restoration took months to be agreed upon by the federal government, have been returned six to eight occasions with meaningless feedback, have been delayed for a number of months, and a few haven’t but been agreed upon,” Nayem wrote.

He accused the federal government of failing to agree on funds for important initiatives inside three months: restoring water pipelines and defending vitality. Workers of the company, which its head says oversees 353 rebuilding development websites, have had their pay minimize. Due to this, priceless personnel started to go away the division.

Nayem predicts that following this they might start to persecute him: “We didn’t at all times match into as we speak’s model and workforce of public administration. And I don’t exclude that sooner or later there will likely be makes an attempt to persecute and discredit our work.”

Final week, Nayem was not authorized for a enterprise journey to Berlin, the place a world convention on the restoration of Ukraine is scheduled to start on June 11.

A letter stating that Prime Minister Shmygal wouldn’t let Nayem go to the convention was printed by Daria Kalenyuk, government director of the Anti-Corruption Heart. She condemns the federal government’s actions towards Nayem’s company.

Kalenyuk has an excellent relationship with the US Embassy, ​​and he or she was invited to a gathering with Secretary of State Antony Blinken throughout a go to to Kyiv in Might.

The doc she printed was cropped. Sources of the Ukrainian BBC service within the Cupboard of Ministers offered a replica of all the doc, the place a be aware from Denis Shmygal is seen.

He wrote that Nayem is being requested to arrange studies and analyzes on the completion of safety websites and restoration initiatives. This half was not within the doc from Kalenyuk. Criticizing Shmygal’s determination to disclaim Nayem a visit to Berlin, Daria Kalenyuk famous that the related Minister for Reconstruction just isn’t going to this convention, as a result of following Kubrakov’s dismissal, no substitute was discovered for him. Nayem, whose company and its companions have been getting ready the convention for the previous 12 months, can be not going. And this can be perceived negatively by worldwide companions, she believes.

Investigative journalist Yuri Nikolov drew consideration to the truth that the day earlier than the beginning of such an vital convention, the title of the top of the delegation from Ukraine was nonetheless unknown. Nobody seems on the convention agenda subsequent to the names of the German Chancellor and the President of the European Fee from Ukraine.

What’s the response from Shmygal’s authorities?

As sources informed the BBC Ukrainian Service within the Cupboard of Ministers, the federal government of Ukraine on the convention in Berlin will likely be represented by the First Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Financial system Yulia Sviridenko, the Minister of Power and others, and Prime Minister Denis Shmygal just isn’t going as a result of he’s targeted on getting ready for winter and safety of vitality services.

“The problem of mobilizing worldwide help for vitality restoration there will likely be raised on the highest degree,” the federal government mentioned.

Additionally they famous that an vital authorities assembly was scheduled for a similar days, the place they meant to listen to a report from the restoration company on the progress of arranging the safety of important infrastructure and vitality. This assembly will likely be chaired personally by Denis Shmygal.

“That’s the reason the prime minister didn’t approve the enterprise journey of the top of the company,” clarify sources of the BBC Ukrainian Service within the Cupboard of Ministers.

Nayem’s statements have been referred to as an try and “keep away from reporting on vital points.”

Kubrakov, Nayem and infrastructure safety

The pinnacle of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Alexander Kubrakov, was additionally concerned in preparations for the worldwide convention on the restoration of Ukraine in Berlin. He was referred to as one of many favorites of President Vladimir Zelensky, however in early Might of this 12 months he was unexpectedly faraway from workplace.

Kubrakov was dismissed simply in the intervening time when German Minister for Financial Cooperation and Growth Svenja Schulze was touring to Ukraine to satisfy with him. Instantly upon the arrival of the German delegation, it grew to become identified that Kubrakov not heads the Ministry of Infrastructure. Schulze referred to as it “not excellent news” on the time.

Kubrakov himself mentioned that the choice to dismiss him was not mentioned with him, however he is able to talk regarding the outcomes of his work.

Specialists famous that sooner or later Kubrakov fell out of favor within the President’s Workplace. A number of months earlier than his resignation, observers predicted that this might eventually trigger him to be fired, below the pretext of dividing his ministry into “infrastructure” and “reconstruction.” And so it occurred: they fired him with lightning velocity, however over the previous month they might not discover a substitute.

The principle achievements of Kubrakov are the steady operation of the infrastructure at first of the invasion, the institution of arms provides, transport “visa-free”, and the evacuation of individuals by rail.

For nearly a 12 months, Kubrakov’s deputy was Nayem, who then, on his proposal, grew to become the top of the Reconstruction Company.

“We collectively started restructuring and cleaning the ministry and subordinate establishments of mindless forms and corruption,” Nayem mentioned regarding Kubrakov and thanked him for his belief.

Ukrainian media wrote that throughout the full-scale struggle, Kubrakov developed pretty good relations with Western companions.

Western ambassadors, in line with the BBC, expressed open misunderstanding regarding Kubrakov’s dismissal off the report.

Observers even steered that the companions requested to not fireplace Kubrakov, however this data was not publicly confirmed.

For the reason that lion’s share of Western monetary help for the reconstruction of Ukraine handed by way of the Ministry of Reconstruction, Kubrakov was in fixed contact with companions. He managed to construct trusting relationships with them, which can have turn out to be the explanation for the jealousy of the president or his workplace, media reported, citing sources.

In April 2024, Kubrakov gave a report back to the Verkhovna Rada on why the important thing vitality services of Ukraine – Trypillya and Zmievskaya thermal energy crops, for the safety of which large funds have been allotted, turned out to be susceptible to Russian shelling.

Kubrakov then acknowledged that these specific objects have been outdoors the scope of duty of his ministry, which dealt solely with the safety of transformer substations, traction stations of the Ukrainian Railway, bridges, ports and aviation services.

He referred to as the safety of thermal energy crops the duty of the Ministry of Power. On the similar time, Kubrakov believes that they have been hit solely as a result of lack of missiles within the Ukrainian air protection system.

President Vladimir Zelensky additionally publicly acknowledged that the strikes on the Trypilska Thermal Energy Plant within the Kyiv area mightn’t be repelled because of a scarcity of missiles, as a result of it was struck concurrently by 11 Russian missiles.