Third term: Leshchenko is back on the supervisory board of Ukrzaliznytsia
6 October 2025 15:08
The Cabinet of Ministers has partially renewed the composition of the supervisory board of Ukrzaliznytsia and, among other things, reappointed Serhiy Leshchenko as a representative of the state.
This is stated in the decree No. 1090-r of October 1, reports "Komersant Ukrainian"
this is Leshchenko’s third appointment to the supervisory board.
At the end of December 2019, the Cabinet of Ministers first appointed him to the Supervisory Board of Ukrzaliznytsia as a representative of the state.
In December 2021, Leshchenko was reappointed to the supervisory board of Ukrzaliznytsia, and in early February 2022, he was elected deputy chairman.
In his public speeches, Leshchenko always supports the Office of the President, Yermak, and Zelenskyy. Therefore, his job at Ukrzaliznytsia with a monthly salary of UAH 300,000 may be a payment for his loyalty to the government as a media personality.
Serhiy Leshchenko has repeatedly been involved in scandals and curiosities.
on September 6, 2016, it became known that Leshchenko had purchased a 192 m² apartment in a new building in the historic center of Kyiv for UAH 7.5 million (over $300 thousand)
According to Serhiy, half of the amount was a loan from Olena Prytula, part of it was his savings, and the rest was money from his girlfriend Anastasia Topolska.
NABU did not find any criminal offense in the case.
on February 9, 2017, MP from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction Ivan Melnychuk and Serhiy Leshchenko started a fight in the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
According to Leshchenko, the conflict occurred allegedly because of a Facebook post in which Leshchenko wrote that MPs from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction were deliberately disrupting meetings of the Anti-Corruption Committee in order to later accuse the committee of being incapable.
Leshchenko punched Melnychuk in the face, and Melnychuk damaged Leshchenko’s jacket.
In addition, Leshchenko did not support the language law, although he was present in the hall and was listed as absent in the voting results.
As a member of the Supervisory Board of Ukrzaliznytsia, Leshchenko was unable to answer a journalist’s question about the track gauge of the Ukrainian railroad.
