MOSCOW, Jan 24 resignation — Deputy Defense Minister Vyacheslav Shapovalov wrote a statement, Deputy Head of the President's Office Kirill Timoshenko and Deputy Prosecutor General Alexei Simonenko have already lost their positions. power supply.
«Vyacheslav Shapovalov <…> asked to be fired so as not to pose a threat to the stable supply of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a result of a campaign of accusations related to the purchase of food services,» the release says.
Minister Oleksiy Reznikov supported the request his deputy and turned to the government with a proposal, the Defense Ministry added. At the same time, Shapovalov's statement was called «a worthy act in the traditions of European and democratic politics», and the accusations against him were called unfounded and unfounded.
The Ukrainian media accuse the Ministry of Defense of fraud in concluding an agreement on catering services for military units stationed in Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Poltava, Sumy, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions. The amount of this transaction is over 13 billion hryvnia (more than 350 million dollars). According to journalists, the Ministry of Defense buys products twice or three times more expensive than they can be purchased in retail stores in Kyiv.
In response, the military department said that this information is being disseminated with «signs of deliberate manipulation and misleading.» And Reznikov explained the inflated prices for products by a technical error.
Resignations in the office of the president and the Prosecutor General's OfficeIn addition, the deputy head of the office of the president, Kirill Timoshenko, resigned the day before. Today Vladimir Zelensky granted his request.
Tymoshenko appears in many scandalous publications. In October, journalists wrote, in particular, that on business trips he drives an SUV donated by the American General Motors for humanitarian needs. Later, Tymoshenko was reproached for living in an elite settlement near Kyiv, which is called «the main settlement of Ukrainian millionaires.»
Another resignation — Deputy Prosecutor General Oleksiy Symonenko. Here, the reason for the scandal was the publication that Symonenko, despite Zelensky's call, left for Spain for ten days, moreover, in a car owned by the company of the wife of businessman Grigory Kozlovsky.