{"id":1313669,"date":"2025-10-29T19:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/kudrytskyi-case-the-authorities-must-immediately-stop-political-games\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:17:05","slug":"kudrytskyi-case-the-authorities-must-immediately-stop-political-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/kudrytskyi-case-the-authorities-must-immediately-stop-political-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudrytskyi Case\u201d: Power Games That Could Blow Up Ukraine\u2019s Energy Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source: Author&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/serhii.marchenko.ua\/posts\/pfbid032rF5zx9mrkoAMVfvaazwA2pCJdMR4TC6b95ypgUM9EYpVByQz2X4ZRdGiLcnXStYl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>War is no time for political games \u2014 shove them aside and judge every action by one yardstick: did it help win? Anything else is a betrayal of those at the front.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"175\">We are witnessing an absolutely disgraceful case \u2014 the arrest (and, incredibly, the theft of his phone by the police!) of the former head of Ukrenergo, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"177\" data-end=\"257\">If we evaluate Kudrytskyi\u2019s record, it\u2019s not hard to see a few crucial things:<\/p>\n<ol data-start=\"259\" data-end=\"708\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n<li data-start=\"259\" data-end=\"474\">\n<p data-start=\"262\" data-end=\"474\"><strong data-start=\"262\" data-end=\"285\">Before the invasion<\/strong>, Kudrytskyi was the one who organized the synchronization of Ukraine\u2019s energy system with the European grid, successfully passing through numerous inspections and rigorous EU procedures.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"476\" data-end=\"708\" data-is-last-node=\"\">\n<p data-start=\"479\" data-end=\"708\" data-is-last-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"479\" data-end=\"524\">Just hours before the full-scale invasion<\/strong>, it was Kudrytskyi who disconnected Ukraine\u2019s power system from the Russian and Belarusian grids \u2014 preventing Moscow from triggering an energy collapse in the first days of the war.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/even-stalin-understood-this-whats-wrong-with-the-kudrytsky-affair\/\">Even Stalin Got It: What\u2019s Wrong with the \u201cKudrytsky Affair\u201d?<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<ol start=\"3\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"354\">\n<li data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"354\">\n<p data-start=\"3\" data-end=\"354\">During Kudrytskyi\u2019s tenure, <strong data-start=\"31\" data-end=\"138\">Ukrenergo built more protective structures at energy facilities than all other market players combined.<\/strong> This became possible because Kudrytskyi\u2019s Ukrenergo secured <strong data-start=\"199\" data-end=\"236\">$1.5 billion in loans and credits<\/strong> for fortifications, while <strong data-start=\"263\" data-end=\"313\">Minister Herman Halushchenko\u2019s Energy Ministry<\/strong> attracted only about <strong data-start=\"335\" data-end=\"352\">$500 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p data-start=\"356\" data-end=\"483\">In plain terms, without the political noise and finger-pointing, <strong data-start=\"422\" data-end=\"464\">Kudrytskyi was exceptionally effective<\/strong> in his position.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"485\" data-end=\"656\">Now, as the enemy intensifies its attacks on our energy infrastructure, <strong data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"600\">removing an effective head of Ukrenergo<\/strong> does not, to put it mildly, help Ukraine win the war.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"658\" data-end=\"825\">To put it bluntly: <strong data-start=\"677\" data-end=\"823\">if you have no light at home today, it\u2019s a direct consequence of replacing a competent leader with a loyal subordinate of Herman Halushchenko.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"827\" data-end=\"1021\">Political games during war are evil.<br data-start=\"863\" data-end=\"866\" \/>Infighting during war is evil.<br data-start=\"896\" data-end=\"899\" \/>Irresponsibility, incompetence, and the illusion that \u201cthings will somehow work out\u201d during war <strong data-start=\"997\" data-end=\"1019\">are absolute evil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1023\" data-end=\"1226\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The shameful story of Kudrytskyi\u2019s arrest will go down in history as just as disgraceful as the years-long, fruitless attempts to imprison professionals like <strong data-start=\"1181\" data-end=\"1202\">Andriy Pyvovarsky<\/strong> or <strong data-start=\"1206\" data-end=\"1226\" data-is-last-node=\"\">Andriy Kobolev.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" data-right>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/eu-mp-ready-to-bail-out-ex-head-of-ukrenergo-who-ensured-disconnection-of-ukrainian-power-grid-from-russia\/\">EU MP ready to bail out ex-head of Ukrenergo, who ensured disconnection of Ukrainian power grid from Russia<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p>This shit needs to stop immediately!!<\/p>\n<p><em>We will remind, the former executive director of NPC Ukrenergo, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/dbr-rozsliduie-zlovzhyvannia-kudrytskoho-v-ukrenerho-detali-spravy\/\">Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, became a subject of an investigation conducted by the State Bureau of Investigation<\/a>. Investigators are checking his involvement in abuse of office and misappropriation of state company funds. The check concerns a possible artificial increase in the volume of deforestation and overestimation of the cost of work during the construction of energy highways.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Later, it became known that the State Bureau of Investigation raised new suspicions against businessman Ihor Hrynkevich, who is currently in custody, and <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/https-prm-ua-p-1312529-preview-true\/\">detained the former head of Ukrenergo, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi,\u00a0 in the Lviv region<\/a>. He is accused of fraud on a particularly large scale and the legalization of funds obtained by criminal means.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On October 29, the Pechersk Court of Kyiv chose a preventive measure for Kudrytskyi &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sud-obrav-zapobizhnyy-zakhid-kudrytskomu-shcho-vidomo\/\">he was sent to custody<\/a> for two months, until December 26, with the possibility of bail for 13 million 730 thousand hryvnias.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 Materials published in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section reflect the opinion of the author of the publication, who bears full responsibility for the accuracy of the information.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The editorial staff of prm.ua may not share the opinions expressed in the author&#8217;s material.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The owner of the webpage in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section is the author of the publication.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Author&#8217;s Facebook page War is no time for political games \u2014 shove them aside and judge every action by one yardstick: did it help win? Anything else is a betrayal of those at the front. We are witnessing an absolutely disgraceful case \u2014 the arrest (and, incredibly, the theft of his phone by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1313580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76893],"class_list":["post-1313669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313748,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313669\/revisions\/1313748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1313580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}