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June 10, 2024
Mustafa Nayyem, a former well-known journalist and creator of a well-known submit on social networks calling for participation in Euromaidan in 2013, introduced that he was leaving his place as head of the State Company of Ukraine for Reconstruction. He defined his departure by saying that he and the company had 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 will start in Berlin, the place Nayem was imagined to go as head of the reconstruction company. Nonetheless, Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal didn’t approve his enterprise journey. Nayem in contrast it to being stabbed within the once more.
The Ukrainian authorities rejects Nayem’s accusations and calls his assertion an try to keep away from reporting on necessary points.
The ousting of Nayem’s crew might be seen as a continuation of the story of the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Kubrakov in Could, 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 paperwork”
Mustafa Nayyem was a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, with whose crew he later quarreled. He then labored in authorities constructions 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 yr. He was appointed to this place on the advice of the Minister of Infrastructure Alexander Kubrakov, who was additionally just lately fired.
Judging by Nayem’s Fb submit, he’s leaving his place with a loud slam of the door. The official stated that the federal government didn’t enable the company to work usually and was “a nightmare with paperwork.”
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picture captionMustafa Nayem harshly criticized the federal government for opposing the reconstruction company’s work
“…Paperwork for cost for protecting constructions, fortifications or restoration took months to be agreed upon by the federal government, had been returned six to eight instances with meaningless feedback, had 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 essential tasks inside three months: restoring water pipelines and defending vitality. Staff of the company, which its head says oversees 353 rebuilding building websites, have had their pay minimize. Due to this, useful 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 type and crew of public administration. And I don’t rule out that sooner or later there shall be makes an attempt to persecute and discredit our work.”
Final week, Nayem was not accepted for a enterprise journey to Berlin, the place a global 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 revealed by Daria Kalenyuk, govt director of the Anti-Corruption Heart. She condemns the federal government’s actions in opposition to Nayem’s company.
Kalenyuk has a superb relationship with the US Embassy, and she or he was invited to a gathering with Secretary of State Antony Blinken throughout a go to to Kyiv in Could.
The doc she revealed was cropped.
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Picture caption, Shmygal’s response regarding Nayem’s enterprise journey, which was revealed by Kalenyuk
Sources of the Ukrainian BBC service within the Cupboard of Ministers offered a duplicate of the whole doc, the place a notice from Denis Shmygal is seen.
He wrote that Nayem is being requested to arrange reviews and analyzes on the completion of safety websites and restoration tasks. This half was not within the doc from Kalenyuk.
Picture caption, Reply from Denis Shmygal with a notice a couple of request for a report from Nayem
Criticizing Shmygal’s choice to disclaim Nayem a visit to Berlin, Daria Kalenyuk famous that the related Minister for Reconstruction shouldn’t be going to this convention, as a result of following Kubrakov’s dismissal, no alternative was discovered for him. Nayem, whose company and its companions have been getting ready the convention for the previous yr, 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 necessary convention, the title of the top of the delegation from Ukraine was nonetheless unknown.
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Picture caption, Screenshot from the convention web site. Agenda
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 advised the BBC Ukrainian Service within the Cupboard of Ministers, the federal government of Ukraine on the convention in Berlin shall be represented by the First Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Economic system Yulia Sviridenko, the Minister of Power and others, and Prime Minister Denis Shmygal shouldn’t be going as a result of he’s targeted on getting ready for winter and safety of vitality amenities.
“The difficulty of mobilizing worldwide help for vitality restoration there shall be raised on the highest stage,” the federal government stated.
Picture by Denis Shmygal, telegram
Picture caption: Shmygal’s authorities says that Nayyem was not launched to Berlin as a result of they had been ready for his report at a gathering within the Cupboard of Ministers
Additionally they famous that an necessary 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 essential infrastructure and vitality. This assembly shall 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 had been known as an try to “keep away from reporting on necessary 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 known as one of many favorites of President Vladimir Zelensky, however in early Could of this yr he was unexpectedly faraway from workplace.
Kubrakov was dismissed simply for the time being 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 turned identified that Kubrakov not heads the Ministry of Infrastructure. Schulze known as it “not excellent news” on the time.
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Picture caption Kubrakov was named amongst President Zelensky’s favorites, so his resignation got here as a shock to many
Kubrakov himself stated that the choice to dismiss him was not mentioned with him, however he is able to focus on 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 may 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 alternative.
The principle achievements of Kubrakov are the secure operation of the infrastructure initially of the invasion, the institution of arms provides, transport “visa-free”, and the evacuation of individuals by rail.
For nearly a yr, Kubrakov’s deputy was Nayem, who then, on his proposal, turned the top of the Reconstruction Company.
“We collectively started restructuring and cleaning the ministry and subordinate establishments of mindless paperwork and corruption,” Nayem stated regarding Kubrakov and thanked him for his belief.
Ukrainian media wrote that throughout the full-scale warfare, Kubrakov developed fairly good relations with Western companions.
Western ambassadors, in line with the BBC, expressed open misunderstanding regarding Kubrakov’s dismissal off the file.
Observers even instructed that the companions requested to not fireplace Kubrakov, however this info was not publicly confirmed.
Because the lion’s share of Western monetary help for the reconstruction of Ukraine handed by means of the Ministry of Reconstruction, Kubrakov was in fixed contact with companions. He managed to construct trusting relationships with them, which can have grow to be the explanation for the jealousy of the president or his workplace, media reported, citing sources.
Picture caption: In March-April, Russia launched a number of highly effective missile assaults on vitality technology amenities in Ukraine. A few of them had been destroyed to the bottom
In April 2024, Kubrakov gave a report back to the Verkhovna Rada on why the important thing vitality amenities of Ukraine – Trypillya and Zmievskaya thermal energy crops, for the safety of which big funds had been allotted, turned out to be susceptible to Russian shelling.
Kubrakov then acknowledged that these explicit objects had 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 amenities.
He known as the safety of thermal energy crops the duty of the Ministry of Power. On the similar time, Kubrakov believes that they had been hit solely because of the 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 as a consequence of an absence of missiles, as a result of it was struck concurrently by 11 Russian missiles.