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A relative of Serhii Koretskyi shifted from fuel trading to a drone business with an American company
A relative of the head of the Ukrainian government, Serhii Koretskyi, created a small drone manufacturing company and managed to carry out a joint project with a large foreign holding.
The prime minister’s wife, Iryna Koretska, has a blood sister — Olena Moruzhko.
A year ago Moruzhko became a co-founder of Nord Dron Group LLC. The newly formed company, with authorized capital of 10 thousand UAH, almost immediately signed a letter of intent with U.S. AIRO Group Holdings Inc. to create a joint venture that would produce 25 thousand unmanned aerial vehicles per month.
In April 2026, Olena Moruzhko became a co-founder of two more U.S. companies — Skywall and Pitch Dynasmics. In all three cases her partners were Ukrainian cybersecurity specialist Yevhen Kotukh and American businessman of Sikh background Chirinjeev Kathuria (Chirinjeev Kathuria).
The AIRO Group Holdings created by Kathuria is not a global tech giant, but it has a stable annual revenue of $90 million, subsidiaries in Denmark and Canada, and it has passed preliminary qualification with the U.S. and Canadian Departments of Defense, opening the way to new contracts for drone production.
The authors of the piece suggest that the company would hardly have agreed to cooperate with a little-known Ukrainian firm without assurances that influential officials in Kyiv stood behind Nord Dron Group.
At that time Koretskyi was not yet prime minister, but his candidacy was already being considered in the Office of the President as a potential replacement for Yuliia Svyrydenko.
Supporting this version, the article notes, is the fact that the legal support for creating the joint venture between Nord Dron Group and AIRO Group Holdings was provided by Asters — Ukraine’s largest full-service law firm.
Former defense minister Oleksii Reznikov previously worked at Asters, and later the firm’s lawyers collected funds for bail for Andrii Yermak. At the same time, after a year the joint venture still had not started operations. Now, as prime minister, Serhii Koretskyi, the authors suggest, has more opportunities to accelerate this process.
Olena Moruzhko’s fuel business
In 2023–2024 years the structures of Serhii Koretskyi and Olena Moruzhko actively interacted on the petroleum products market. According to the article’s authors, Moruzhko made significant profits trading fuel.
During that period Koretskyi headed the state companies Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta. In December 2022 Moruzhko founded Ukrainian Fuel Standard. Already by 2023 the company had won government tenders worth 63 million UAH, and by 2024 it had won another 155 million UAH.
Among the company’s clients were United Mining and Chemical Company, Lesy Ukrainy (Forests of Ukraine), Ukrposhta, Pivdennyi Port, the Kyiv Metro, the Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office and other institutions.
In many tenders Moruzhko’s company offered fuel vouchers from Ukrnafta, petroleum products from the Kremenchuk Refinery, which is part of Ukrtatnafta, or imported fuel supplied by Ukrnafta’s subsidiary Ukrnafta-Postach. At the same time, according to the article, the company’s prices included slightly larger discounts than the offers of the state enterprises headed by Koretskyi.
However, in 2025 Ukrainian Fuel Standard sharply reduced its activity, and this year Olena Moruzhko completely left the company’s list of founders, switching to military technologies.
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A relative of Serhii Koretskyi shifted from fuel trading to a drone business with an American company
A relative of Serhii Koretskyi shifted from fuel trading to a drone business with an American company
A relative of Serhii Koretskyi shifted from fuel trading to a drone business with an American company
A relative of Serhii Koretskyi shifted from fuel trading to a drone business with an American company
A relative of Serhii Koretskyi shifted from fuel trading to a drone business with an American company
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