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NABU Detains Five in $100 Million Energy Corruption Case as Energoatom Calls Special Review

The crackdown targets alleged kickback and laundering networks tied to state contracts, signaling tighter control of critical energy assets under wartime strain.

Overview

  • Energoatom’s supervisory board will convene a special session to launch an independent audit and review internal controls, as the Justice Ministry confirmed investigative actions involving Herman Halushchenko and seven suspects were formally notified.
  • Ukraine’s security service detained a suspected FSB agent caught setting a grenade trap in a Kharkiv park and a GRU-linked agent accused of preparing to bomb a trunk gas pipeline serving parts of Kharkiv and Poltava regions.
  • Ukrenergo reported customers without power in Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa regions and applied rolling hourly outages of up to four queues while repairs continue at damaged Centrenergo thermal plants.
  • The General Staff recorded 170 frontline clashes in the past day, including 63 repelled attacks on the Pokrovsk axis, and said Ukrainian forces struck Russia’s Saratov oil refinery and a fuel terminal in occupied Feodosia.
  • Ukraine’s intelligence service published records for 1,233 artworks looted from the Kherson art museum, and the Prosecutor General reported at least 1,553 cultural heritage sites damaged or destroyed nationwide.