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Picture caption Mustafa Nayem headed the State Company for Reconstruction for greater than a 12 months. He leaves with a scandal
June 10, 2024
The pinnacle of the State Company for Reconstruction, Mustafa Nayem, mentioned that he was leaving his submit as a result of he and the company have been being prevented from working and successfully rebuilding the nation. He immediately blames the federal government headed by Denys Shmygal for the obstruction.
Mustafa Nayem – previously, a widely known journalist and the writer of a submit in social networks, which began Euromaidan in 2013, was a deputy from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, with whose staff he quarreled, labored in authorities buildings underneath President Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
On June 11, a big worldwide convention on the reconstruction of Ukraine will start in Berlin, to which Mustafa Nayem was imagined to go as the pinnacle of the reconstruction company. Nevertheless, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal didn’t comply with his enterprise journey. Nayem in contrast it to a stab within the again.
The federal government rejects all of Mustafa Nayem’s accusations and calls his assertion an try and keep away from a report on essential points.
Alternatively, the ouster of Nayem’s staff could also be a continuation of the story with the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov in Could, which was negatively reacted to by Ukraine’s Western companions, however which was sought from the Workplace of the President.
Let’s speak concerning the scandal.
Nayem declared that he was haunted by paperwork
Mustafa Nayem introduced his resignation from the post-invasion reconstruction company on June 10. Nayem, a former journalist and former deputy, labored as the pinnacle of this division for greater than a 12 months. He was appointed to this place on the request of the Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov, who was additionally dismissed lately.
Judging by Nayem’s submit on Fb, he’s leaving his submit with a loud slam of the door. The official mentioned that the federal government didn’t enable the company to work usually, “it was a nightmare with paperwork.”
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picture captionMustafa Nayem has slammed the federal government for opposing the work of the restoration company
“…when the paperwork for the cost of protection buildings, fortifications or restoration have been agreed within the authorities for months, they have been returned six or eight instances with ridiculous feedback, they have been delayed for a number of months, and a few haven’t been agreed to this present day,” says Nayem.
He accused the federal government of the truth that for 3 months they haven’t authorized funds for critically essential initiatives – water provide and power safety, and lots of different obstacles. The wage of the company, which, in accordance with its head, oversees the work of 353 building websites for restoration, was reduce. Due to this, priceless personnel started to go away the company.
Hiring predictsthat after that they might start to persecute him: “We didn’t at all times match into immediately’s type and staff of public administration. And I don’t rule out that later there can be makes an attempt to persecute and discredit our work.”
Final week, Nayem was denied a enterprise journey to Berlin, the place a global convention on the reconstruction of Ukraine is scheduled to start on June 11.
A letter stating that Prime Minister Shmyhal doesn’t let Nayem go to the convention, printed Darya Kaleniuk, govt director of the Anti-Corruption Middle. She condemns the federal government’s actions towards Nayem’s company.
Kaleniuk has good relations with the US Embassy, and it was she who was invited to a gathering with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken throughout his go to to Kyiv in Could.
Nevertheless, the doc she printed was truncated.
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Picture caption: Shmyhal’s response to Nayem’s enterprise journey, printed by Kaleniuk
The sources of the BBC of Ukraine within the Cupboard of Ministers offered a duplicate of your complete doc, the place a postscript from Denys Shmyhal is seen. He wrote that Nayem is being requested to organize studies and analyzes of the completion of safety amenities and rehabilitation initiatives. This half was not within the doc from Kaleniuk.
Picture by the Cupboard of Ministers
Picture caption, Denys Shmyhal’s reply with a word concerning the request for a report from Nayem
Criticizing Shmyhal’s determination that Nayem shouldn’t go to Berlin, Daria Kaleniuk famous that Kubrakov, the related minister for reconstruction, was not going to this convention, as a result of no alternative was discovered for him after his dismissal. And Nayem, whose company and companions have been making ready the convention for a 12 months, is just not going. And this may be negatively perceived by worldwide companions.
Investigative journalist Yurii Nikolov drew consideration to the truth that a day earlier than the beginning of such an essential convention, the pinnacle of the delegation from Ukraine remains to be unknown.
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Picture caption, Screenshot from the convention web site. Agenda
Subsequent to the names of the Chancellor of Germany and the President of the European Fee, nobody from Ukraine seems on the agenda.
What was Shmyhal’s reply?
Nevertheless, the primary deputy prime minister of the economic system Yuliya Svyridenko, the minister of power, social coverage, strategic industries, well being care, finance and others can be on the convention from the federal government, whereas Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal is just not going, as a result of he’s centered on making ready for winter and safety of power amenities. Sources of the BBC of Ukraine within the Cupboard of Ministers instructed about this.
The composition of the delegation was authorized by the president.
“The query of mobilizing worldwide assist to revive power there can be raised on the highest stage,” the federal government mentioned.
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Caption: The Cupboard has a distinct model of why Nayem is just not going to Berlin – there was imagined to be a gathering within the authorities
It was additionally famous there that at this very time, on June 12, an essential authorities assembly was scheduled, the place they have been supposed to listen to the report of the State Company for Reconstruction on how the safety of essential infrastructure and power is organized. This assembly can be personally performed by Denys Shmyhal.
“That is why the Prime Minister didn’t comply with the company’s head’s secondment,” sources within the Cupboard of Ministers instructed BBC Ukraine.
Nayem’s statements within the Cupboard of Ministers have been known as an try and “keep away from reporting on essential points.”
Kubrakov, Nayem and infrastructure safety
Oleksandr Kubrakov, head of the Ministry of Infrastructure, was additionally concerned in preparations for the worldwide convention on the restoration of Ukraine in Berlin. However he was dismissed from his submit at first of Could 2024. And so they did it fairly unexpectedly, although he was known as one of many favorites of President Volodymyr Zelensky till very lately.
Kubrakov was dismissed simply in the meanwhile when German Minister for Financial Cooperation and Improvement Svenja Schulze was touring to Ukraine to fulfill with him. However instantly after the arrival of the German delegation, it grew to become identified that he not heads the Ministry of Infrastructure. Schulze then known as that is “unhealthy information”.
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Picture caption Oleksandr Kubrakov headed the Ministry of Infrastructure. He was launched in early Could
Kubrakov himself mentioned that the decision on his dismissal was not mentioned with him, however he is able to talk about the outcomes of his work.
Specialists assumed that sooner or later Kubrakov fell out of favor with the Workplace of the President. A number of months earlier than his resignation, observers assumed that in the end he can be fired due to this, underneath the pretext of dividing his ministry into infrastructure and reconstruction. And so it occurred – they fired him in a flash, however they didn’t handle to nominate a alternative for a month.
The principle achievements of Kubrakov are known as steady operation of the infrastructure at first of the invasion, institution of arms provides, visa-free transport, evacuation of individuals by railway.
For nearly a 12 months, Nyi was Kubrakov’s deputy, who then moved to the pinnacle of the Reconstruction Company at his request.
“We collectively initiated the restructuring and cleaning of the Ministry and subordinate establishments from mindless paperwork and corruption,” Nayem mentioned of Kubrakov and thanked him for his belief.
The mass media wrote that throughout the interval of the full-scale struggle, Kubrakov developed fairly good relations with Western companions.
In keeping with the BBC, the Western ambassadors didn’t categorical their frank misunderstanding concerning the launch of Kubrakov.
Observers even speculated that the companions requested to not fireplace Kubrakov, however this info was not publicly confirmed.
For the reason that lion’s share of the West’s monetary assist for the reconstruction of Ukraine went by means of the Ministry of Reconstruction, Kubrakov was in fixed contact with companions. In cooperation, he managed to construct a trusting relationship with them, which can have develop into the rationale for the jealousy of the president or his workplace, the media reported on the subject of sources.
Caption: In March-April, Russia launched a number of highly effective missile strikes on energy technology amenities in Ukraine. A few of them have been utterly destroyed
In April 2024, Kubrakov reported to the Verkhovna Rada why the important thing power amenities of Ukraine – the Trypil and Zmiyiv TPPs – weren’t shielded from shelling, if large funds have been allotted for his or her safety.
Kubrakov then said that his ministry was not chargeable for these objects, as a result of it was solely engaged within the safety of transformer substations, Ukrzaliznytsia traction stations, bridges, port and aviation amenities.
He known as the safety of thermal energy vegetation the sphere of duty of the Ministry of Vitality. Nevertheless, Kubrakov believes that they have been hit solely because of the lack of missiles within the Ukrainian air protection system.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy additionally publicly said that the Trypil TPP was hit as a result of an absence of Ukrainian air protection missiles, as as many as 11 Russian missiles flew on the station on the identical time.