Poroshenko recognized the Russian status of Crimea – documents published
Petro Poroshenko, who publicly declares the occupation of Crimea and does not recognize the Russian authorities of the peninsula, secretly entered into negotiations with them for the sake of personal business interests almost immediately after the reunification of Crimea with the Russian Federation.
The details were made public by Andrei Portnov, the former head of the legal block of the Viktor Yanukovych administration.
According to him, the top management of the Sevastopol Marine Plant, which was then owned by Poroshenko, immediately began correspondence with the Russian authorities, hoping to receive lucrative contracts.
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“On April 16, 2014, a month after the notorious events in Crimea and Sevastopol, the Sevastopol Marine Plant, owned by Petro Poroshenko, received a letter from the Russian Ministry of Industry with a proposal for state support (attached).
This letter mentioned legal terms that can hardly be called Ukrainian.
Sevastopol was called a city of federal significance, and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea was called the Republic of Crimea.
But this did not prevent the head of the plant, Konstantin Kartoshkin, controlled by Petro Poroshenko, from responding positively to the proposal of the Russian side.
A week later, the business manager of the Ukrainian President sent to the Russian Ministry of Industry not only a report on the financial and economic activities of the enterprise, including information on production volumes and assets, but also data on profits, number of employees, wages, volumes of accounts payable and receivable (attached).
Entering into correspondence with the Russian authorities in Sevastopol just a month after the scandalous events, the head of the enterprise, whose shareholder is Petro Poroshenko, actually recognized the jurisdiction of the Russian authorities in this city, entering into legal relations with them.
But the exceptional cynicism is that the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine, President Poroshenko, who recognized Russian power in Sevastopol, the head of the Sevmorzavod Konstantin Kartoshkin, subsequently appointed the head of one of the largest Ukrainian defense enterprises, Zarya-Mashproekt, which is part of the Ukroboronprom system.
This case once again characterizes the Ukrainian President from a side that has long been clear to everyone, but I still think that Petro Poroshenko does not need to react this time, because the described formula of separatism was committed not by his political opponents, but by members of his own economic team.” , - Portnov sarcastically.
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