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👀 Former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov in a Ukrainska Pravda piece strongly denies any connection to the schemes at the State Service of Special Communications and the NABU case concerning drone purchases, shifting the blame to Yermak
Commenting on the NABU and SAP case regarding the then leadership of the State Service of Special Communications allegedly buying drones at inflated prices (losses reportedly reach 254 million hryvnias), Mykhailo Fedorov was accused of bearing personal responsibility for the matter because the State Service of Special Communications was subordinate to the Ministry of Digital Transformation.
But Fedorov denies this: "I was the first official to sign a memorandum with NABU/SAP and handed over all contracts to them in real time. And when I saw that there were frauds, I personally wrote a letter to the Bureau, after which the suspicions followed."
Fedorov also claims that the then head of the State Service of Special Communications, Yurii Shyhol, appointed in 2020, caused a conflict between then Head of the Office of the President Yermak and Fedorov. The latter wanted to appoint the head of the State Service of Special Communications from his ministry — Dmytro Makovskyi — while Yermak lobbied for Shyhol. Fedorov considers this the first political intrigue against him.
Note that the next head of the State Service of Special Communications, Yurii Myronenko, was entirely Fedorov’s appointee, but he did not stay long in his position because he failed the drone procurements. Despite this, Myronenko was later moved by Fedorov to the position of deputy head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation, but he was also dismissed after two months.
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