Yuri Vitrenko: The Cabinet can free me at any time. The main thing is victory. Interview about the heating season, default of Naftogaz and war
The second process is the restructuring of multimillion -dollar debts to Western creditors, also not without problems. Extra funds, or, as Vitrenko himself says, is a "big bunch of money", it is necessary for the purchase of precious blue fuel. But Naftogaz bond owners have already abandoned two years of delay. Now NAC has made them a new, improved offer and waiting for the answer.
Video of the day in both cases, the activity of formally independent Naftogaz is coordinated by the Cabinet of Ministers Denis Shmigal, who first forbade the company to pay with creditors, and secondly, put a lot of gas storage facilities before Naftogaz-19 billion cubic meters. Through these stories, the relationship between the government and one of the country's largest companies is difficult to call cloudless.
It is rumored that conversations on high tones at the Cabinet have ceased to be a rarity. Vitrenko denies quarrels. Moreover, he said, he understands the government's tasks for one simple reason: everyone has to do everything to win. He repeats this thesis during a half -hour conversation several times.
In a big interview with NV, Business Yuri Vitrenko tells why creditors still have to agree with a deferral how a centralized power model looks like during the war and whether Ukrainians should stock up on firewood, coal and gas cylinders. Spoiler: Winter will really be complicated. War, oil, Eurobonds How did the war change Naftogaz? In the managerial and technological sense. This is just a completely different reality.
Priorities now - to bring the victory in the war, to save people working in Naftogaz. We have killed at work, many people work in the territories where hostilities are underway. Many assets of the company were a target for Russian troops. In terms of management, this military reality is also completely different from what was before. During the war, the whole nation should be consolidated, the authorities are also consolidated - now a much higher level of centralization in decision -making.
Centralization within the company or general? Starting from the President, the Government, Ministry and Naftogaz. We are now part of not even centralized power - the whole country is centralized. There is no difference between society and power. We have a common goal, a common problem, a common desire to win the war as soon as possible. At the practical level, many things are determined by the government. We understand this, do what we determine, do everything for victory.
What has it lost Naftogaz during the war - assets, underground storage facilities, mining? Speaking of a full-scale war, since February 24, first, we have lost many of our oil and processing assets. The same Shebelinsky gas processing plant. Is it lost due to hostile rockets or through orthodoration? Through rockets. It does not work and cannot work soon. It should be mentioned that we are a minority shareholder of the Kremenchug oil refinery, a similar history.