"A Team of Collaborators": What MP Yulia Yatsyk Is Hiding and Not Talking About
Yulia Yatsyk is perhaps the most visible "star" of today's Zaporizhzhia political scene. Undoubtedly, her rise to prominence is primarily her own doing: Yulia Yatsyk has an undeniable talent for self-presentation, writes open-ua.
Hyperactivity on social media, a love of hype and scandal, coupled with a sharp mind, feminine charm, and the ability to manipulate—this is the effective formula for success for MP Yatsyk, who makes no secret of her great political ambitions.
As the saying goes, the brighter the light, the deeper the shadow. And there are moments in Yulia Grigoryevna's background that she'd rather not remember. However, they shouldn't be forgotten. And for many, we're sure, some facets of the political "diamond" named Yatsyk will be a completely unexpected discovery.
Yulia Yatsyk, the head of a law firm from Vasylivka, burst into big politics in 2019. This was her second attempt to enter the Verkhovna Rada. The Servant of the People party list was practically a sure bet. However, for the pragmatic Yatsyk, Volodymyr Zelenskyy's political force turned out to be, as the saying goes, merely a means of transport to the Rada.
Yatsyk immediately distanced herself from the "servants" and demonstratively ignored the initiatives on which the "SN" and the president's program was built. Zelensky.
As many remember, a few days before the war, Yulia Yatsyk said, that she will run for mayor of Zaporizhzhia, emphasizing that she does not care what the Servant of the People party thinks about it.
And in October 2022, Yatsyk finally broke ranks with the political force that had made her a people's deputy, with a purely feminine sarcasm. commenting“We lived without love, and parted without sorrow.”
For more than a year now, almost all 79st district MP Yulia Yatsyk's region is under occupation and in a state of humanitarian catastrophe. However, Yulia Grigorievna has long forgotten about her constituents, focusing entirely on the intrigues in the regional center.
Yatsyk was at peace with her property, as the occupiers, to the great surprise of the locals, took the people's deputy's house in Vasilyevka under guard, and to this day no one has encroached on the rather affluent estate.
Initially, in the first weeks of the invasion, Yatsyk seemed to "organize" the delivery of humanitarian aid to the villages of the Vasilievsky district, but this activity quickly died out, as the unfortunate people living under occupation no longer represented an electoral interest for Yulia Yatsyk, who had set herself the goal of becoming mayor of Zaporizhzhia.
Have you ever heard of Yulia Yatsyk worrying about the fate of the residents of her 79th district? Perhaps, as a lawyer, she's spent the last year defending the rights of her district's residents—refugees and those remaining under occupation and in the "gray zone," organizing medical supplies, and fighting for the release of hostages?
Judging by her Facebook activity, she stopped helping residents of the district a year ago, in April 2022, and switched completely to Zaporizhzhia.
At the same time, we all see how Ivan Fedorov has been literally "crucifying" himself for his city throughout the entire year of war. He literally has his finger on the pulse of Melitopol, keeping all of Ukraine informed daily about what's happening there.
MPs from the occupied districts of the Zaporizhzhia region – Serhiy Minko, Pavlo Melnyk, and even Opposition Platform – For Life member Oleksandr Ponomarev – also demonstrated their unambiguous position.
Unlike them, Yulia Yatsyk not only pretends her district no longer exists, but hasn't made a single public statement against collaborators. And this is no coincidence.
Yulia Yatsyk. Vasilievsky dream team
It is reliably known that Yatsyk maintains contact with many people from his “orbit” who went into the service of the enemy.
For example, with his Vasiliev friend, the criminal authority Armen Altunyan, who, according to available information, is the “overseer” of the Zaporizhzhya organized crime group “Artashi” in the region.
This racketeer became famous throughout the region a year before the war, when he caused chaos in Vasilyevka. burned down the parking lot with nine cars. Yulia Yatsyk, who had already become a member of parliament by then, declared that she would seek an investigation into the case. But, in keeping with the best traditions of avoiding incrimination, Yatsyk's investigation vanished like water into sand, ending in nothing.
At the very beginning of the occupation, Armen Altunyan became one of the supervisors of the Vasilyevka humanitarian aid distribution under the auspices of Yulia Yatsyk. He remained in the occupied territory, finding common ground with the Russians.
Armen Altunyan
Yulia Yatsyk also says nothing about the pressure on farmers in her district and the export of grain from the Vasilievsky District through Crimea to Russia. The organizer of this process is the former head of the district administration, Vladislav Sadovnichy.
This traitor travels around the district with armed guards and has an FSB "label." Incidentally, his mother worked in the Malaya Belozerka village council at the time of the invasion, handling, among other things, military registration. She readily cooperated with the occupiers, handing them all her military registration documents, and currently works in the local administration.
To put it simply, Malaya Belozerka is a village the size of the city of Dneprorudne, home to more than 5 people, and home to the Zaporizhzhia Iron Ore Plant.
Since last summer, the former head of the Vasilievsky District State Administration, Sadovnichy, has been actively pressuring the district's farms to re-register their land leases in accordance with Russian law, register with Russian registries, and force them to sell grain to Russians at a reduced price.
The Dnipro-Rudno organized crime group, led by brothers Gevorg and Gor Galechany, helps to "convince" the recalcitrant through intimidation and physical force.
Gor Galechan
The Galechan brothers, dubbed the "overseers" of Dneprorudny, have a long and extensive criminal record of extorting businessmen from the Vasilievsky district. However, they avoided prison not only thanks to the corruption of local law enforcement but also to the excellent legal work of Yulia Yatsyk.
Is it worth explaining why Yulia Grigoryevna is completely oblivious to the activities of all these characters in her district, albeit temporarily occupied, and hasn't said a word from the parliamentary rostrum about the ongoing lawlessness, let alone words of support for the resisting farmers.
Yulia Yatsyk also maintains contact with Andriy Kholosha, a dyed-in-the-wool collaborator and the former head of the Vasilyevka District Administration. Kholosha made his choice from the very beginning of the invasion and joined the occupiers.
Kholosh's career as a traitor began by recording a video for Russian propaganda, in which he called on the Zaporizhzhia territorial defense and the Ukrainian Armed Forces to lay down their arms and "not fire" at the residents of Vasylivka.
Andrey Kholosha
And this is the former deputy mayor of Kamianka-Dniprovska, Andriy Kononenko, who was appointed to the position under Yulia Yatsyk's quota and handled all of her projects under the supervision of Yatsyk herself and her sister, former deputy head of the Vasilyevka district administration and regional council member Natalia Kruglyak.
And now Yulia Yatsyk's "creature" is responsible for issuing Russian passports to local residents.
Yatsyk has a good "team" in the area, there's nothing to say...
Andriy Kononenko, a traitor under Yulia Yatsyk's quota, is on the left.
Another prominent collaborator on Yulia Yatsyk's team is Denis Kalinin. As head of the district council, Kalinin oversaw all of her projects in Vasilyevka on her behalf.
Denis Kalinin and Yulia Yatsyk
Once again, a member of Yulia Yatsyk's team turned out to be an active "waiter" for the Russian world: Denis Kalinin immediately sold out to the occupiers, and now he's the "deputy mayor" of Vasilyevka and a mouthpiece for Russian propaganda, telling everyone how good life has become since the "liberation."
Denis Kalinin, a member of Yulia Yatsyk's team
Another prominent collaborator and confidant of Yulia Yatsyk in the Vasilievsky District is Sergei Sokolovsky, who has been in charge of the Russian education department since the invasion, thereby indoctrinating children. He and Yulia Yatsyk remain in contact to this day.
At the same time, Yatsyk’s opponents in the district, such as the mayor of Dniprorudny Yevgeny Matveyev, and Deputy Mayor of Energodar Ivan Samoydyuk were taken to the basement immediately after the occupiers arrived. Samoydyuk was recently rescued from the clutches of the Russians after 11 months of captivity, while there has been no news about Matveyev for over a year.
Behind the scenes in the Verkhovna Rada, they say that it was precisely her long-standing ties and interactions with numerous traitors in the occupied territories, while completely ignoring the ordinary people who remained there, that became the "last straw" and the reason for Yatsyk's expulsion from Servant of the People.
But on the Ukrainian side, Yulia Yatsyk's team also consists of rather controversial characters.
Take, for example, Yatsyk's closest aide, Nikolai Dukhonchenko. His Facebook feed is literally composed From Yulia Yatsyk's posts. These are truly close friends and comrades.
But in the past, "Kolchik" Dukhonchenko was a corrupt extortionist cop.
"Young and early" former Police investigator Dukhonchenko was caught extorting a $1000 bribe from a Vasilyevsk drug dealer in exchange for not opening a criminal case. This is a long-standing case, and one in which lawyer Yatsyk honed her skills in "approaching" judges—and not without success: Nikolai Dukhonchenko successfully avoided prosecution and subsequently became not only an assistant to MP Yatsyk but also her close friend.
Trying to avoid mentioning her occupied 79th district and her team of hand-picked collaborators, Yulia Yatsyk has recently been actively courting the military, and she's doing quite well. Hype, active self-promotion, and the ability to appear rather than be—these are undoubtedly MP Yatsyk's strong suits.
For example, today, to be trendy, you have to actively take selfies with soldiers. And it doesn't matter that the sober comments of unmanipulated citizens are drowned in a sea of likes: the main thing is the right picture.
At the same time, few people ask the question: why does Yulia Yatsyk travel to positions?
Initially, last fall, in order to have a constant opportunity to take "selfies" with people in military uniform, Yulia Yatsyk became... a volunteer and joined the ranks of the Zaporizhzhia DFTG No. 6 (a voluntary paramilitary formation of the territorial community), consisting mainly of retired law enforcement officers, and received the appropriate identification.
Yulia Yatsyk shows off her ID card as a volunteer for the DFTG No. 6.
However, she soon had the opportunity to visit the 110th Zaporizhzhia Separate Territorial Defense Brigade. Yulia Yatsyk seized the opportunity, immediately gaining the trust of the 110th Brigade's command and eventually becoming an advisor to Brigade Commander Alexander Ignatiev.
And again, succumbing to feminine charm and assertive energy, no one asks questions:
— What advice can a member of parliament, who built her legal career defending criminal bosses, raiders, and extortionists, and whose team is almost entirely made up of high-ranking collaborators, give to the commander of the 110th Troitskyist Brigade?
How did it happen that someone, even a member of parliament, who doesn't have access to military secrets, has had free access to staff documents, command plans, and is present at secret military command meetings for many months?
Who knows, maybe this is why the 110th Brigade’s counteroffensive is not going well?
Alexander Ignatiev and Yulia Yatsyk
And if Colonel Ignatiev isn't aware of the extent of his advisor Yulia Yatsyk's connections, it's strange that the SBU and counterintelligence aren't paying attention to these matters.
After all, the information about the true nature of the "Yatsyk team" isn't exactly a revelation, and is likely known to the Ukrainian intelligence services. Perhaps they're biding their time, playing some kind of covert game?
In short, let's continue to closely observe Yulia Yatsyk and her entourage, not succumbing to her charm, cunning, or skillful manipulation. And most importantly, remember that it's always the retinue that makes the "queen."
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