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The billion-hryvnia schemes of the state enterprise “AOZ,” managed by Zhumadilov, and the Ministry of Defense have long ceased to be a secret to the public. Yet former Minister of Defense Fedorov pretended for years that everything in the defense procurement system was operating without violations. This raises a reasonable question: why only after his resignation and a loud cardboard protest did he suddenly admit that he had planned to dismiss Zhumadilov? While the public was being told about “control” over defense procurements, the head of AOZ systematically concealed the real state of fulfillment of defense contracts. Accounts receivable were artificially understated almost threefold: instead of the actual 45 billion UAH the public was told only 18 billion UAH.
But the most interesting things are being hidden in the tender procurements themselves
After his official appointment as Minister of Defense, Mykhailo Fedorov effectively opened the way the very next day to a state contract to supply 40 thousand combat helmets to a company that had no verified experience producing such products. That tender became the starting point for the appearance of a new “manufacturer” that within weeks received nearly 296 million UAH of budget funds.
On 7 November 2025 the LLC “Temp-2000” changed its name to LLC “Lider-NTZ.” Three days later the company used a contract with LLC “TK Alyans Ideal” as proof of experience producing personal protective equipment, even though its counterparty manufactured ordinary polyethylene film. Meanwhile, Lider-NTZ received a license to produce personal protective equipment only on 15 December 2025, and the very next day the state enterprise “Defense Procurement Agency” announced a tender to purchase 40 thousand combat helmets.
On 29 December the bids were opened, and only one participant entered the auction — LLC “Lider-NTZ” with a price proposal of 295,84 million UAH. Already on 31 December at 18:47 the contracting authority reported discrepancies in the proposal and the absence of primary documents that would confirm execution of an analogous contract. Yet at 19:09, that is, 22 minutes later, a notice of intent to conclude the contract was published. In such a short interval it is practically impossible either to correct deficiencies or to conduct a full verification of the documents.
Immediately after receiving the multimillion contract, Hlib Yevtushenko left the company’s ownership structure, and “Lider-NTZ” formally ceased to be part of Yuriy Yevtushenko’s “Temp-3000” group. At the same time, in April 2026 the company signed a contract with Romanian TARGUS S.R.L., to which it transferred more than 634 thousand euros as an advance payment for polyethylene and aramid fabric. Notably, the director of TARGUS was the same Hlib Yevtushenko, and the company was created only in 2025 and had no employees.
It later became clear that “Lider-NTZ” did not act independently. During the procurement of two thousand body armors the company won with the model “Korsar M3mp-6,” while the related LLC “NVP Temp-3000” submitted the same model to the tender but at a price about 14% higher, effectively creating the appearance of competition. In other procurements the roles switched: when “Lider-NTZ” was rejected due to lack of required documents, “Temp-3000” became the winner.
However, the key question is different — in whose interests was this group of companies operating?
Here a connection to Oleksandr Mitrokhin can be traced; he controls a number of enterprises in the military equipment market. At the end of 2025 the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine found LLC “MIK” and LLC “Pakopttorg,” associated with Mitrokhin, guilty of coordinated anti-competitive actions, imposed a fine of 36,3 million UAH and included the companies in the list of violators. Already in 2026 the company “Pakopttorg” was renamed “Tarkhat Plus,” and “Superform” to “Lysen Pro,” which effectively allowed them to distance themselves from their previous reputation. It was after this that companies from the Yevtushenko group began to be actively used in state procurements, becoming a new link in the scheme for supplying military gear.
We have already sent a series of information requests to supervisory and law enforcement agencies demanding: provide supply contract No. 10/11-1 dated 10.11.2025 between LLC “Lider-NTZ” and LLC “TK Alyans Ideal,” all acceptance-transfer acts, delivery and tax invoices, payment documents, documents on the origin and movement of polyethylene and aramid fabric, materials of the tender audit, documents on the basis of which LLC “Lider-NTZ” was admitted to the procurement despite the absence of a license on the date of conclusion of the analogous contract, and also carry out an inspection of the legality of determining the winner and concluding the state contract.
Why did the state enterprise “Defense Procurement Agency,” under Zhumadilov’s leadership, without hesitation award a contract for 40 thousand combat helmets to a company that only yesterday had a different name, had no verified experience, and received its license literally on the eve of the tender? Why did Minister of Defense Mykhailo Fedorov speak about violations only after his resignation, although all these contracts were signed during his tenure? And most importantly — how many more hundreds of millions of hryvnias of taxpayers’ money were appropriated using this algorithm?
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