Mykolaiv City Council Rejects Changes to Executive Committee Amid Scandal

Mykolaiv did not support changes to the personal and quantitative composition of the executive committee of the city council. Yuriy Kormyshkin, a former deputy of the Mykolaiv regional council suspected of corruption, was left in the executive committee.

The decision was made at a meeting of the city council's standing committee on human rights, children, family, legality and publicity.

Kormyshkin submitted his resignation on July 9, 2024, and it was officially received by the city council on July 12.

What was to change:

• To reduce the number of members of the executive committee to 21.
• Yuriy Kormyshkin, who submitted an application for early termination of his powers, was to be excluded from the personal composition.
• The relevant deputy commission chaired by Olena Kiselyova and the mayor Oleksandr Senkevych will be responsible for monitoring the implementation of the decision.

However, despite the proposed changes, the commission members did not support the decision. This created a pause in the final approval of the updated composition of the executive committee, and the issue remains open for further discussion.

On January 30, during the fortieth session of the Mykolaiv City Council, the deputies failed for the third time to exclude a former deputy of the regional council from the executive committee. A similar attempt had already been made in October during the thirty-eighth session, but the decision did not receive the required number of votes.

In late January, the former deputy was arrested. The court imposed a bail of 15 million hryvnias on him, after which he was released from custody. According to the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor' s Office, he is suspected of attempting to legalize the funds of his wife, MP Iryna Kormyshkina, who is currently under suspicion by the SAPO. The investigation claims that he conducted several financial transactions to conceal the source of his income.

The former MP, who owns the Southern Agricultural Export Company, publicly reacted to the detention, calling the accusations political pressure from law enforcement agencies. In addition, on February 24, 2025, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Regulations plans to consider Iryna Kormyshkina 's application for early resignation from her parliamentary powers.

Анна Бальчінос