President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on 14 November that law-enforcement and anti-corruption bodies had not told him of links between several officials named in recordings in the Carthage case and the people connected to the case. He also said the investigation continues and that further staffing changes are coming. The statement updates the president’s public position, but it does not disclose the investigative record or explain what personnel decisions will follow.
According to Ukrainska Pravda, Zelenskyy said he had received the information after speaking with law-enforcement and anti-corruption officials. He named Klymenko, Vyhivskyi and Poklad among those whom, he said, had no connection to the matter. He also said he asked NABU and SAPO whether they had information concerning Liashko, Klymenko and Arakhamia, and was told they did not.
The intervention matters because it addresses names already circulating in public discussion of the recordings. But the president was relaying information he said he received from institutions; he was not publishing the case materials. The supplied reporting contains neither the full context of the recordings nor the procedural status of every person mentioned, and it provides no court ruling on anyone’s criminal responsibility.
Zelenskyy called the affair “unpleasant” and “wrong,” said he supports the investigation, and promised further staffing changes. That promise should be read narrowly. He did not identify the posts involved, a timetable, or the grounds for any decisions. Personnel changes may be an institutional response, but they do not reveal the substance of the criminal case.
The consequential next developments are concrete decisions on the promised changes and any public procedural actions by NABU, SAPO or other bodies in the case. Until then, Zelenskyy’s statement clarifies his position on the named officials, while leaving the investigation to establish its own record.
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- Українська правда · Source date: 2026-11-14
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