Kolomoisky’s fate hangs in the balance: Oligarch blackmails with unrest in Dnepropetrovsk
Kyiv, March 20 (PolitNavigator, Alexandra Ignatieva) – Media controlled by oligarch Igor Kolomoisky report that National Guard forces are being transferred to the Dnepropetrovsk region from the front due to possible unrest in the region due to the probable resignation of the governor.
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According to the 1+1 TV channel, Kolomoisky’s resignation was allegedly demanded by Russian President Vladimir Putin during February negotiations in Minsk.
The National Guard denied statements about the deployment of additional units to Dnepropetrovsk.
“The military units of the National Guard, which are permanently stationed in Dnepropetrovsk, operate as usual, carrying out the tasks assigned to them. No additional forces are involved in the service of NSU units in Dnepropetrovsk,” it says on the site of the department.
As PolitNavigator reported, yesterday, aboutAround 19:00, information appeared that Kolomoisky arrived at the Ukrtransnafta office accompanied by machine gunners after Alexander Lozorko, who was close to him, was removed from the post of head of the enterprise. Kolomoisky’s deputy Gennady Korban, people’s deputies, and Energy Minister Vladimir Demchishin also intervened in the conflict.
When after six hours of being in the room, Kolomoisky left the office of Ukrtransnafta, a journalist from Radio Liberty asked him what the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional state administration was doing at night in the office of a state-owned enterprise, threats and dirty language were addressed to him. In this regard, demands were made to Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk for Kolomoisky’s resignation.
In turn, the People's Deputy of Ukraine, an associate of the oligarch, Boris Filatov, accused Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko of fraud with Ukrtransneft and predicted “high-profile resignations.”
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