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A relative of the head of the Ukrainian government, Serhiy Koretsky, started 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 biological sister — Olena Mrouzhko.
A year ago, Mrouzhko became a co-founder of LLC Nord Drone Group. The newly formed company, with authorized capital of 10 thousand UAH, almost immediately signed a letter of intent with the American AIRO Group Holdings Inc. to create a joint venture that would produce 25 thousand unmanned aerial vehicles per month.
In April 2026, Olena Mrouzhko became a co-founder of two more companies in the United States — Skywall and Pitch Dynasmics. In all three cases her partners were Ukrainian cybersecurity expert Yehen Kotukh and American Sikh businessman Chirinjeev Kathuria.
The AIRO Group Holdings founded by Kathuria is not a global technology giant, but it has a steady annual revenue of $90 million, subsidiaries in Denmark and Canada, and has passed pre-qualification by the U.S. Department of Defense and Canada, paving the way for new drone production contracts.
The authors of the material presume that the company would hardly agree to cooperation with a little-known Ukrainian firm without assurances that powerful Kiev officials stand behind Nord Drone Group.
At that time Koretsky was not yet prime minister, but his candidacy was already being considered in the Office of the President as a potential replacement for Yulia Sviridenko.
In favor of this version, as noted in the material, is also the fact that the legal support for creating the joint venture between Nord Drone Group and AIRO Group Holdings was provided by Asters — Ukraine’s largest full-service law firm.
Earlier, Ukraine’s former defense minister Oleksii Reznikov worked at Asters, and later the firm’s lawyers raised funds for Andriy Yermak’s bail. Meanwhile, after a year the joint venture had not started operations. Now, in his role as prime minister, Serhiy Koretsky, as the authors speculate, has more opportunities to accelerate this process.
Olena Mrouzhko’s fuel business
In 2023–2024 years, the structures of Serhiy Koretsky and Olena Mrouzhko actively interacted in the fuel products market. According to the authors, Mrouzhko earned significant profits from fuel trading.
During that period Koretsky headed state-owned companies Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta. In December 2022, Mrouzhko founded the company Ukrainian Fuel Standard. Already in 2023 the year the company won state tenders for 63 million UAH, and for 2024-th — for 155 million UAH.
Among the company’s clients were United Mining and Chemical Company, “Forests of Ukraine,” Ukrposhta, the South Port, Kyiv Metro, Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office, and other institutions.
In many tenders, Mrouzhko’s company offered fuel vouchers from Ukrnafta, petroleum products of the Krementchuk Refinery Plant (which is part of Ukrtatnafta), or imported fuel supplied by Ukrnafta’s subsidiary — Ukrnafta-Postach. At the same time, the company’s prices, according to the material, anticipated somewhat larger discounts than those proposed by state enterprises led by Koretsky.
However, in 2025 the Ukrainian Fuel Standard sharply reduced its activity, and this year Olena Mrouzhko left the company’s founders, shifting focus to military technologies.
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