The SBU and the Ministry of Energy are preparing a decision regarding the Chervonohrad Central Processing Plant
This was stated by Mykhailo Volynets, a Member of Parliament and head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine.
The Ministry of Energy and the Security Service of Ukraine have become involved in the situation surrounding the Chervonohradska Central Concentration Plant.
According to MP Mykhailo Volynets, the matter has now reached the level of the SBU, the National Security and Defence Council, and the President of Ukraine.
He emphasised that this is, in fact, a strategic facility for the coal industry.
The only plant for state-owned enterprises
Volynets stated that the Chervonohradska Central Enrichment Plant currently remains the only plant providing coal enrichment for state-owned enterprises.
According to him, the stable operation of state-owned mines depends on such assets, so the situation surrounding the plant is significant for the country’s energy security.
“Because when we’re talking about an asset on which the stable operation of state-owned mines depends, this is already a matter of the state’s energy security,” Volynets emphasised.
What the state said
According to the MP, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal publicly confirmed that the state has, for the first time, begun to actively engage in the process surrounding the enterprise.
In particular, state representatives were present at the court hearing regarding the replacement of the arbitration manager.
Volynets also drew attention to the minister’s remarks that previously the state had effectively not participated in such processes.
The issue of ‘overseers’ and state assets
The MP stated that informal control schemes could have developed due to years of “tacit consent” surrounding strategic enterprises.
“It is precisely because of this long-standing ‘tacit consent’ surrounding strategic enterprises that various ‘overseers’, schemes and individuals emerged who, for years, kept entire processes in the coal industry under their control,” Volynets stated.
He also supported the Prime Minister’s position on “cleansing state assets of the institution of overseers”.
What decisions are being prepared
Separately, Volynets emphasised that the Ministry of Energy is already working on the situation together with the Security Service of Ukraine.
According to him, additional decisions are also being prepared in cooperation with the Ministry of Defence.
What happened previously
The court hearing on the appointment of a receiver for PJSC “Lviv Coal Company” has been postponed again.
The hearing has been rescheduled from 18 May to 16 June.
Earlier, RBC-Ukraine reported that the situation at the Chervonohradska Coal Preparation Plant requires attention, as the full supply of coal from the mines of the Lviv-Volyn Basin to state-owned thermal power plants depends on it.
Members of the relevant trade unions have also already appealed to the Ministry of Energy, demanding that it intervene in the situation at the Chervonohradska Coal Preparation Plant.
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Member of the Verkhovna Rada in the 4th, 5th, 6th and 9th convocations.
On 22 July 2025, he voted in favour of Bill 12414, which placed the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) under the authority of the Prosecutor General. This bill effectively abolished the independence of the anti-corruption bodies and brought them under government control.
In 2023, the High Anti-Corruption Court closed the NABU case against Volynets due to inaccurate declarations. The official reason given was the expiry of the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution.
In 2022, NABU issued a warrant for Volynets’ arrest over false information in his 2020 declaration amounting to a total of nearly 1.79 million hryvnias.
In 2021, according to journalists from “Bihus.info”, Volynets systematically acted in the interests of oligarch Rinat Akhmetov in the Verkhovna Rada.
In 2019, he was elected as a Member of Parliament of the 9th convocation from the All-Ukrainian Union “Batkivshchyna”, ranked 20th on the list as an independent. Member of the eponymous parliamentary group. Member of the Committee on Energy, Housing and Utilities.
Since 2015, he has been one of the initiators and co-organisers of the “Everyone Matters” Social Platform.
In 2012, he stood for election to the Verkhovna Rada as an independent candidate on the “Batkivshchyna” party list, ranked 85th.
In 2007, he was elected as a Member of Parliament of the 6th convocation from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, number 15 on the list, as an independent. He served as Deputy Chair of the Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety.
In 2006–2007, he was a Member of Parliament of the 5th convocation from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (No. 15 on the list, independent). He served as Deputy Chair of the Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety.
Since 2003, he has been a co-founder and chairman of the “Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine”, which the media describe as close to the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov.
In 2002, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc as number 14 on the list and served as a member of the Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety.
In the 2000 by-elections, he stood for the Verkhovna Rada in constituency 36 (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) as an independent candidate.
In 1998, he stood for parliament as number 3 on the list of the “Party of Spiritual, Economic and Social Progress”.
In 1991, he became head of the O. Stakhanov Interregional Trade Union Association. Since 1997, he has been chairman of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine.
From 1985 to 1991, he was chairman of the trade union committee at the O. Stakhanov Mine.
From 1985 to 1991, he headed the trade union committee of the O. Stakhanov Mine.
From 1983, he served as a deputy of the Pokrovsk City Council of People’s Deputies for two terms.
Prior to that, he worked as an underground electrician, a mining foreman, an assistant section manager and a section manager at the O. Stakhanov Mine.
He graduated from Donbas State Technical University with a degree in ‘Mining Electrical Engineering’ and from the Mining Vocational School in Myrnohrad (Donetsk Oblast). He is a recipient of the George Meany and Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award from the American Federation of Labour – Confederation of Industrial Unions.
He was born on 30 October 1956 in the village of Novozhyvotiv, Vinnytsia Oblast.
