The Ministry of Economy of Ukraine plans to resume the activities of gas production companies of the Smart Holding group in the Poltava and Kharkiv regions, which stopped working due to sanctions against the shareholder Vadym Novinskyi. About this stated Director of the Department of Property Policy and Sanctions of the Ministry of Economy, Yaroslav Maksymenko, during a round table on the topic “Ukrainian subsoil under sanctions and arrests: challenges, conclusions, future”.
“If we are talking about the economy of Ukraine and Ukrainian enterprises that work for the economy of Ukraine, and about preventing the influence of sanctioned final beneficial owners on Ukrainian enterprises, then the Ministry of Economy fully shares the position that Ukrainian enterprises should work for Ukraine.” — Maksymenko explained.
According to her, currently the issue of resuming the activities of the mentioned enterprises “lies in the area of changes to the legislation”, and the Ministry of Economy together with other state bodies has already prepared relevant legislative initiatives.
“They are far from ideal, but they solve at least partially problematic issues… We are open to dialogue, let’s work”, — emphasized the representative of the Ministry of Economy.
The director of Smart-Holding, Ivan Gerasimovych, made a proposal to adopt a corresponding “corrective decision”.
“Sanctions are aimed at depriving the aggressor state, the Russian Federation, of resources for the war in Ukraine. Correct? Everything that deprives them of resources is all good. If the sanctions are applied in such a way that they deprive their own state of resources, then it is necessary to find a solution that would level the situation and make it possible, on the contrary, to support our army and our military.”, he noted.
