Cabinet of Ministers orders audit of Ukrzaliznytsia: State Audit Service to begin in March
26 February 18:58
The State Audit Service of Ukraine plans to launch a state financial control measure at JSC Ukrzaliznytsia in March 2026. This is stated in the service’s response to an information request from the editorial office
The agency reported that the audit of the railway monopoly will be included in the plan of state financial control measures for the first quarter of 2026.
“In accordance with Resolution No. 232 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated February 18, 2026, the State Audit Service plans to amend the Plan of State Financial Control Measures for the first quarter of 2026 with regard to the state financial control measures at JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, which are tentatively scheduled to begin in March 2026,” the response states.
What preceded
Despite the president’s public statement about auditing all state-owned companies, the country’s largest state-owned carrier,Ukrzaliznytsia,was effectively left out of the wave of government audits.
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This “wave” was provoked by the NABU operation “Midas.” It was precisely as a result of the detectives’ revelations about a circle of individuals involved in alleged corruption schemes at Energoatom that the energy giant’s supervisory board was urgently dissolved.
After that, on November 11, Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the government had already begun auditing all state-owned companies and that the results would be forwarded to law enforcement agencies. The list of those who were immediately audited included a number of energy and defense companies. In total, there were about 60 state-owned companies.
At the same time , despite the fact that UZ, like Energoatom, has a supervisory board, the effectiveness of which the CMU has not assessed for several years, it was not included in the list of companies subject to a comprehensive audit until now.
The State Audit Service explained this “exception” for Ukrzaliznytsia at the time by citing its workload.
“The State Audit Service does not currently plan to conduct state financial control measures at JSC Ukrzaliznytsia due to such measures being carried out at other entities in the public sector of the economy,” the Service reported on February 8.
Why the situation has changed
UZ finally returned to the attention of the auditing authorities and the CMU in accordance with the resolution of the Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko. In addition to the audit of Ukrzaliznytsia, this document also provides for the introduction of an experimental mechanism for forming a state order for domestic passenger rail transport.
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