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From Komarnytskyi’s “toilet schemes” to a billion‑hryvnia cemetery: what is known about Andriy Vitrenko’s career
Andriy Vitrenko holds several positions at once: first deputy minister of education, deputy of the Kyiv City Council, head of the Servant of the People faction, leader of the party’s Kyiv organization, and a member of the budget commission. After publications about Denys Komarnytskyi, Vitrenko admitted: he did indeed visit Komarnytskyi’s office, where a hidden recording of conversations was being made.
Vitrenko explained his visits as political negotiations: Komarnytskyi allegedly influenced UDAR, and as faction leader he needed votes. Among his contacts he named Volodymyr Prokopiv, Valentyn Mondriievskyi, and Dmytro Bilotserkovets. Vitrenko says land and the budget were not discussed there and denies corrupt ties.
But there are votes of the Kyiv City Council. Civic activists analyzed 15 decisions from 2023–2024 years that they classified as “toilet schemes”: large land plots were obtained through small real estate objects, in particular toilets, without a proper auction. Vitrenko supported 11 of 15. Bilotserkovets — 13, Prokopiv — 12, Mondriievskyi — 11. Nine deputies voted for all fifteen. Later Vitrenko himself spoke out against the “toilet schemes” and demanded land auctions.
His career progressed quickly. In 2019 he was an assistant to MP Pavlo Sushko. In July 2020 he became deputy minister of education; in the fall he became a deputy of the Kyiv City Council; in December he joined the budget commission. In August 2021 he became first deputy minister. On 31 January 2024 he became head of the Kyiv organization of Servant of the People.
There is a version about ties to the “95 quarter.” Andriy Bohdan called Vitrenko a neighbor and a close acquaintance of Yevhen Koshovyi and allowed for his involvement in promoting the official. Later publications presented a chain Koshovyi — Mykola Tyshchenko — Komarnytskyi — Andriy Yermak: allegedly Komarnytskyi helped with Vitrenko’s campaign and his advancement in the Kyiv City Council. There is no documentary evidence for this version; Vitrenko denies it.
The declaration contains another detail. Since January 2024 the family has been using, free of charge, a garden house of 135,4 sq. m worth about 2,745 million UAH and a plot of approximately 721 sq. m that belong to Vitrenko’s father. Vitrenko himself was reported to have about $20,5 thousand and €3 thousand in cash, with an annual income of about 1,3 million UAH.
His academic biography also took a scandalous turn. In Vitrenko’s candidate dissertation of 2005 researchers found about 20 pages of likely nearly verbatim borrowings from Russian dissertations of 1999 and 2001 years without proper citations. The text even preserved others’ phrases like “in our opinion” and “the subject of our research.” Later Vitrenko received a doctoral degree.
Another large budget item is the National Military Memorial Cemetery, whose coordinating council includes Vitrenko. The first phase costs about 1,75 billion UAH. The contract was awarded to the consortium “Building UA,” created after the procurement was announced. By July 2026 the contractor had been transferred about 779 million UAH, and Paritetbudinvest 19 December 2025 received 750 million UAH in a single payment. There is no evidence of Vitrenko’s involvement in the distribution of these funds.
In 2022 Vitrenko won a court dispute with the Kyiv City Council over the management of the city’s districts. In 2023 he clashed over the powers of secretary Volodymyr Bondarenko. In the summer of 2025 he was named a candidate for minister of education. On 13 November 2025 he reported finding a device for reading information in his official car and appealed to law enforcement.
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