At the Kobzon concert held in Donetsk, there was a Danish citizen present, known in Ukraine as Volodymyr Polubatko, which means he is back in the game. After he actively funded semi-terrorist organizations and their actions in the Luhansk region, his "militants" from local gangs constantly attacked Ukrainian security forces, soldiers, and officers.
He decided not to hide anymore but to openly head the "LPR". This was reported in an insider piece on the website LUSTrATOR.
Polubatko has been known to law enforcement agencies since the 1990s, during the so-called "wild 90s". At that time, he was a well-known local criminal authority. He continues his illegal and often bandit activities even now, although he has managed to become a Danish citizen.
It is currently possible to stop Polubatko’s illegal activities only by revoking his Danish citizenship and freezing his financial assets. Since spring 2014, Polubatko has repeatedly and consciously organized and continues to organize, as well as finance, endless terrorist actions by "LPR" militants against Ukraine’s security structures. He and his accomplices have already started a war. But it is time to stop it! The Ministry of Internal Affairs has already established that a citizen named Polubatko, known as the criminal authority nicknamed "The Footballer", is involved in organizing the financing of sabotage groups operating in the southeastern regions of Ukraine.
“In the Luhansk region, it is known that the criminal business is managed by Leonid Sokhrannyi (the Belarusian), the right hand of the Donetsk overseer from Alchevsk, Volodymyr Polubatko ("The Footballer"), with their managers listed as V.V. Rysukhin and V.K. Petrov. This team has carried out enormous work in the region to paint the area blue, including intimidation, threats, arson, beatings with hammers and bats of supporters of V.A. Yushchenko (information about Rysukhin’s painting on the Donetsk site).
As it was. Starting from the period of the Grek (Greek), the Grey, Dobroslav, and "The Footballer" – the mentioned "overseers" controlled all business in the region, and through their managers – in Alchevsk. This included V.V. Rysukhin in Luhansk — A.M. Danylov, whom they managed. The sphere of business included – racketeering, metallurgy, coal industry, including "kopanky", VAT, trade, drug trafficking, and monthly money from the communal fund was allocated to "zones" — 50-100 thousand UAH for the 15th, 13th, and Chornukhynska.
At many enterprises of Rysukhin and Petrov, there are still Volodymyr Polubatko, Rysukhin, or Petrov, as well as relatives of the mayor of Alchevsk (the head of the "Party of Regions" and an ardent separatist) – N.Y. Kyrychenko. Under their control, such outrageous appointments in 1994, like appointing a mayor of Luhansk with a veterinary technical education, became possible.
Everyone remembers those times when racketeering became the law. V.V. Rysukhin, honestly, for the ISD, worked out the bankruptcy of the Alchevsk Metallurgical Combine. Under a false power of attorney from "Donbashtransgas" (materials in the General Prosecutor’s Office and the Prosecutor’s Office of the city of Luhansk), he robbed all creditors, handing them "dolls" with fake stocks. Rysukhin V.V. and "The Footballer" are currently jointly building a gas station at the exit from Luhansk towards the Luhansk Station. However, "The Footballer" controls it from Denmark (he likes it there), and he comes here every month in the twenties to receive a report from managers – Petrov, Rysukhin, and perhaps now Danylov.
The fact is that during his lifetime, Akhat Bragin never managed to subjugate the "Yenakiyevo brotherhood". His successor – Rinat Akhmetov, took on the final resolution of the Yenakiyevo issue.
The Yenakiyevo organized crime group consisted of a business branch represented by the Georgian brothers-Dolidze, and the combat branch headed by Yuriy Ivanyushchenko (also known as "Little Yura", "Yura Yenakiyevsky", number 111 on the Party of Regions list). In the combat branch, besides Ivanyushchenko, notable personalities included the godfather of Viktor Yanukovych nicknamed “Zuy” (A.P. Zuyev), regular hitmen Rafael Salavatov "Salavat", Vlad Penkovtsev, someone Honcharov nicknamed "Chyzh". In the business branch, there were also budding currency exchangers, gentlemen Yurushev and Frolov. Leonid Yurushev is now known as the chairman of the board of the "Forum" bank.
It is perhaps worth stopping on the personality of Rafael Salavatov, nicknamed "Salavat", in more detail. "Salavat" was already recognized as a particularly dangerous repeat offender at the beginning of the 90s, having spent almost his entire life in prison until Perestroika. However, if before Perestroika he engaged mainly in robbery, after it he specialized in extortion, banditry, and contract killings. And surprisingly, he was never imprisoned again. Not because "Salavat" was elusive, but more likely because the Donetsk police, with the strengthening of the local mafia, turned into just another of its branches.
By 1994, "Salavat" was part of the Dolidze brothers’ gang, which operated in Yenakiyevo, Shakhtarsk, Kirovsk, Debaltseve, and also in the Luhansk region. Luhansk crime leaders "Belarus" (Leonid Sokhrannyi) and "The Footballer" (Volodymyr Polubatko) already operated then under the "Donetsk roof". Interestingly, by the way, "The Footballer" still actually controls the Luhansk region, although he permanently resides in Denmark. They have very lenient laws there, you know.
But once a month, he comes to Luhansk to "take the cash" and "resolve" accumulated issues.
"Salavat" was also involved in organizing large-scale thefts from Yenakiyevo factories. In 1994, when the war between Alik Grek’s group and the Dolidze brothers began, after the murder of several Dolidze members, including Abramitsky, Kravchuk, and Ivchenko – Ivanyushchenko ("Little Yura") left the Dolidze gang taking Zuyev ("Zuy") – godfather of Viktor Yanukovych and "Salavat" with him.
When the Dolidze brothers realized that Grek, and after his demise, Akhmetov, were waging a war for their complete annihilation, they tried to resist. In particular, they kidnapped “Salavat”. However, he managed to escape after a while. And on February 2, 1998, near the building of the Donetsk prosecutor’s office, "Salavat" kills Grigory Dolidze. From this moment on, Rinat Akhmetov becomes the only real leader in the Donetsk region. Among the most famous "associates" of the current de facto leader of the "Party of Regions" should be named Oleksandr Morozov, who once, on Alik Grek’s orders, shot Janos Krantz, and who in Akhmetov’s group led the security service. Alongside Akhmetov was Givi Nemsadze, who controlled the Proletarian district of Donetsk. In our time, when Akhmetov tried in every way to legalize himself, Nemsadze became inconvenient for Rinat Leonidovych, as he was unmanageable, and they simply handed him over to Russian law enforcement agencies. Alongside Akhmetov, there were also such well-known individuals as "Misha Kosyi" (Mykhaylo Lyashko), the future deputies of Ukraine from the Party of Regions Yuriy Chertkov ("Chort"), Serhiy Kiy ("Kiy"), Nurulislam Arkalayev ("Nurik"), the above-mentioned Yuriy Ivanyushchenko ("Little Yura"), and, of course, the head of the Interior Ministry of the Donetsk region Volodymyr Malyshev as the "overseer" for the police.
From the statement of the "Right Sector": "As of today, alongside open Russian aggression, internal counter-revolution has been activated. Its vanguard is the revanchist forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, including in high positions. A bandit-police group headed by the separatist henchman and Moscow’s protégé, General Yevdokymov, is in charge."
General Volodymyr Yevdokymov — the first deputy head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The local press accuses him of corruption, alleging that the public servant even owns a 23-meter yacht, and is suspected of connections with southeastern criminal clans, particularly with the Donetsk notable businessman Volodymyr Polubatko, nicknamed "The Footballer".
In the "Right Sector," they believe that Yevdokymov is involved in the assassination of their activist Oleksandr Muzychko (also known as Sashko Bilyi), who for a long time terrorized all of Western Ukraine with a gun in hand and was shot while resisting the police. Since then, allegedly at Yevdokymov’s instigation, nationwide persecution of the "Right Sector" began.
As the “Obkom” publication wrote, referring to an article in “Hranik+” from April 26, 2004, Yevdokymov worked as the head of the organized crime control department in the Luhansk region from 1995 to 1998. At that time, rumors in the corridors of the Ministry of Internal Affairs spoke about Yevdokymov’s unconventional ties with notorious figures such as the Donetsk authority Volodymyr Polubatko, nicknamed "The Footballer".
Journalists wrote that then-Interior Minister Mykola Bilokin (and Bilokin was one of the few MIA leaders with a clean conscience and hands, devoted to Ukraine...) fired Volodymyr Yevdokymov at that time "due to a very dubious reputation" and ties with the criminal world, including Volodymyr Polubatko.
Author: Olha Serhyeyeva