Back on September 27, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), Oleksandr Danylyuk, announced his resignation (Pravda.com.ua, September 27), which was confirmed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Pravda.com.ua, September 30). According to Mr. Danylyuk, he stepped down in protest against the actions of oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and his former lawyer, Andriy Bohdan, who presently heads the Office of the President of Ukraine and is a member of the NSDC (Rnbo.gov.ua, accessed October 1).
For Mr. Danylyuk, whose conflict with Mr. Bohdan had dragged on for months (BBC – Ukrainian service, October 1), the last straw was the situation around PrivatBank, which was nationalized in 2016 during Petro Poroshenko’s presidency (Nv.ua, September 27). Now, with Mr. Zelenskyy in power, Mr. Kolomoisky is said to be expressing more determination to obtain a handsome compensation for PrivatBank, which the Ukrainian billionaire owned until the state took it over (Nv.ua, September 27). And Mr. Bohdan may be the key person in Kyiv to implement such a plan.