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In Uman, the political confrontation between the city authorities and the circle around Member of Parliament Anton Yatsenko has taken a new turn.
A chain of events is unfolding in Uman that raises more and more questions for security experts and the city authorities. Following unsuccessful attempts to stage a street uprising against the city leadership, the city's critical infrastructure has been hit by a series of strikes. Of particular note is the fact that a day before the Russian attack on the new backup heating line, assistants to MP Anton Yatsenko publicly and in detail inquired about it for the first time in a long while. The city mayor, Iryna Pletnyova, has officially sent a request to the Security Service of Ukraine to check this incident for signs of subversive activity.
As StopCor previously reported in detail in the article "'Maidan' on Announcement: How a Protest Predicted in Advance by MP Yatsenko Appeared in Uman," last autumn a large-scale campaign of pressure was launched against Mayor Iryna Pletnyova. The attempt to create a mass street protest, which MP Yatsenko publicly announced himself, gathered only about a hundred people and quickly lost momentum.
Investigators from StopCorruption TV found that the organizers of the so-called "cardboard Maidan" were people from the parliamentarian’s circle — in particular the head of his initiative group and unpaid assistant Valentyn Khytruk, as well as staff assistant Rostyslav Abramovskyi.
However, the political confrontation later unexpectedly moved into a completely different dimension.
Visit to the session: the only item that interested the MP's associates
On Friday, 30 October 2026, at the 106-th regular session of the Uman City Council, assistants to MP Anton Yatsenko — Roman Kravchenko and Valentyn Khytruk — appeared for the first time in a long time. As stated in the city hall's official appeal, although dozens of important community life issues were on the agenda, the parliamentarian's people were interested in only one draft resolution — No. 8: granting permission to the municipal enterprise 'UmanTeplokomunenerho' to enter into a heat purchase-sale agreement with POSP 'Uman Greenhouse Complex'.
As recorded on the video of the plenary session, Roman Kravchenko persistently and scrutinizingly interrogated the leadership of the heat utility about the cost of heat from the cogeneration units of the greenhouse complex, the mechanics of transporting and distributing the energy.
In response to Kravchenko's direct question about the economic feasibility of the project, the utility officials clearly emphasized: "First and foremost, this is about the safety of heat supply. We cannot be left without heat. This is an alternative."
After the fifth question, the presiding officer urged the MP’s assistant to comply with parliamentary procedure and submit his inquiries in writing.
The fatal strike and the leak of 500 cubic meters of scalding water
The very next day, on the evening of 31 October 2026, the same facility was struck. As a result of an attack by an enemy UAV, a direct hit occurred on the pipe of the heating main that connected the cogeneration capacities of the greenhouse complex with the main boiler house of the municipal enterprise 'UmanTeplokomunenerho.' This line was the newly built backup branch intended to guarantee the heating season for the community in the event of blackouts or enemy strikes.
The damage caused a leak of nearly 500 cubic meters of hot water, and the stable carrying of the heating season was put under real threat. Moreover, early in the week the city suffered a new attack by Russian drones targeting critical infrastructure objects, including the central boiler house.
Appeal to the SBU: coincidence or intelligence gathering?
Such a strange sequence of events forced the city authorities to turn to law enforcement. On 4 November 2026 the mayor of Uman, Iryna Pletnyova, signed an official appeal addressed to the Acting Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Oleksandr Poklad (outgoing No. 7843/01/01-35).
In the document, the city authorities ask the SBU to:
Thoroughly check the circumstances of the sudden appearance of MP Yatsenko’s assistants at the session precisely while the alternative heat network was being discussed.
Determine whether there is any connection between the information gathering at the plenary session and the subsequent targeted UAV strike on the same facility the next day.
Provide a legal assessment of the actions of the aforementioned persons for signs of intelligence-subversive or other unlawful activity directed against state security and critical infrastructure of Ukraine (Art. 17 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the Law 'On Critical Infrastructure').
The city hall emphasizes separately that in a full-scale war such coincidences in timing and objectives look extremely threatening. Of course, chronology alone is not legal proof of direct coordination or treason, and counterintelligence of the SBU must be the ones to draw conclusions. But does such a 'coincidence of circumstances' not leave too many questions?
StopCor continues to monitor developments around Uman and awaits an official response from the special services and from MP Yatsenko himself.
Recall that StopCor previously investigated the circumstances of a court dispute over 97 million UAH of the Obukhiv community, drawing attention to apartment valuations, court decisions, and the legality of the multimillion-hryvnia recovery.
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