Ivashchenko Konstantin Vladimirovich
Official biography
Konstantin Ivashchenko was born on October 3, 1963.
Graduated from the Saratov Higher Military Command and Engineering School.
For two decades he worked at a large Mariupol-based machine-building enterprise Azovmash (engineer, chief marketing specialist, bureau chief, assistant to the president, general director for social issues, general director). Since 2010, he has been a member of the Mariupol City Council.
He was a member of the Party of Regions (de facto dissolved shortly after Euromaidan), headed the local branch of the Nashi party, and was a deputy of the Mariupol City Council from the Ukrainian party Opposition Platform — For Life. President of the Mariupol Wrestling Association.
On March 31, the head of the DPR Pushilin signed a decree establishing the administration of Mariupol in the Donetsk People’s Republic. On April 4, Ivashchenko was elected head of the administration at a meeting of representatives of city communities; he said during the meeting: “I want to tell you this axiom — we are one people, one. And Russia has come today, here, forever.” On April 6, Pushilin signed a decree: “I hereby appoint Konstantin Ivashchenko as the head of the administration of Mariupol.”
Compromising evidence
The Russian occupiers talk about Ivashchenko as an allegedly honest and decent person who is always ready to help. However, the Mariupol City Council says that this is far from the case.
Back in 2020, the Tsybulya news channel published information about the bankruptcy of Azovmash:
According to the Mariupol City Council, Konstantin Ivashchenko destroyed Ukraine’s largest machine-building enterprise. He also cheated tens of thousands of people who worked there. Azovmash employees who are boycotting, data taken from the website Myrotvorets:
We also found a group on Facebook dedicated to corruption at Azovmash with a large number of complaints, lawsuits, and comments from lawyers.
According to lawyer Oleksandr Orekhov, who is handling the case of non-payment of wages at Azovmash, the wage arrears amount to more than UAH 250 million.
Oleksandr Orekhov also submitted a request to the Ministry of Infrastructure with a list of questions, including the issue of salary payments. The Ministry’s response:
Opening of appeal proceedings in the case of abuse of office by Azovmash executives Ivashchenko, Naumenko, and Khadzhynov.
After that, he joined the now banned OPFL party. As a result, he betrayed the state and went over to the side of the occupiers.
The Nazis do not get tired of breaking through the bottom of cynicism again and again. First, they bombed and took our flourishing city hostage. They starved and killed thousands of Mariupol residents. And now they are holding covens with collaborators on the ruins,” is how the city council reacted to Ivashchenko’s ”appointment.
The Russian media are presenting Ivashchenko in a better light:
However, the Mariupol City Council is convinced that evil will be punished, and every traitor and collaborator will pay for their actions.
Russian mobile crematoria have started operating in Mariupol — the occupiers are destroying all witnesses to their crimes.
Russian Nazis are destroying any evidence of their army’s crimes in Mariupol. Mobile crematoriums have started working there.
This was reported by the press service of the Mariupol City Council.
Eyewitnesses say that the bodies of the dead are collected and burned by Russian Nazi henchmen — special mopping-up crews made up of local collaborators and terrorists of the so-called DPR. The work of these groups is coordinated by the self-proclaimed traitor mayor Konstantin Ivashchenko. For many years, he has repeatedly tried to seize power.
A week ago, cautious estimates pointed to 5,000 dead. But, given the size of the city, the catastrophic destruction, the duration of the blockade and the fierce resistance, tens of thousands of civilians could have been killed by the Russian Nazis.
That is why the Russian Federation is in no hurry to give the green light to the Turkish mission and other initiatives to rescue and fully evacuate Mariupol. In addition, all potential witnesses to the occupiers’ atrocities are being identified through filtration camps and destroyed.
D. Pushylin’s decree appointing Ivashchenko mayor of Mariupol:
“The world has not seen the scale of the tragedy in Mariupol since the days of the Nazi concentration camps. The Russian occupiers have turned our entire city into a death camp. Unfortunately, the horrific analogy is getting more and more confirmation. This is no longer Chechnya or Aleppo. This is a new Auschwitz and Maidanek. The world must help punish Putin’s inhumans,” wrote Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko.
Was Azovzagalmash stolen? Police detain trucks with ferrous metal in Mariupol
Two trucks with ferrous metal products have been parked at the checkpoints of Azovzagalmash for more than a week. They are blocked on both sides by law enforcement vehicles. Criminal proceedings have been opened over the theft of state-owned property.
0629 tried to investigate the situation.
Trucks with metal:
As 0629 has learned from its own sources, on March 15, 2021, the trucks arrived in Mariupol from Dnipropetrovska oblast. Here they entered the territory of the plant, where they were loaded with metal. The police detained the vehicles when they left the plant’s premises and drove onto Karpova Avenue. Mariupol administration, a short story about Ivashchenko:
After inspection, police officers found 30 ferrous metal products in the trailers — bushings, flanges, wheels, rings, etc. According to the source, the truck drivers provided the police with documents (several acceptance certificates, specifications to contracts, and invoices) on the basis of which they were transporting the products. Trucks with metal:
The reason for the detention was the fact that all the documents were drawn up unilaterally — they were signed by the general director ofAzovzagalmash,Konstantin Ivashchenko. At the same time, part of the enterprise is owned by the state and there are no approvals for the export of metal from the plant.
The police opened a criminal investigation into the theft of state property through abuse of office.
Azovzagalmash CEO Konstantin Ivashchenko said in an interview with TV-7 that illiquid products, which were not supported by all the necessary documents, were being exported from the plant.
“These are not equipment or machines,” Ivashchenko said. ”By selling these products, the company finds the funds to pay wages. Today, Azovzagalmash employs 600 people.”
Judging by this information, written by lawyer Orekhov, we can conclude that the 600 employees Ivashchenko is talking about have never been paid:
Azovzagalmash PJSC is the largest company of Azovmash Holding.
Head of Mariupol promises to introduce DPR standards in the city soon
The new mayor of Mariupol, Konstantin Ivashchenko, said that the standards of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) will be introduced in the city in the foreseeable future.
“In the near future, all of the above will appear — both the ruble and the aid. Mariupol residents will be able to receive both DPR and Russian passports — just like all other residents of the republic,” the mayor said in an interview with Izvestia newspaper on Tuesday, answering questions about the timing of the ruble zone, the appointment of social benefits and the launch of an updated education system.
According to the mayor, the authorities are considering opening the first schools in late April, depending on the situation.
“If the danger persists, we will postpone it until September, but we have such plans. The education system will switch to the standards of the Donetsk People’s Republic, which are almost completely in line with the Russian ones,” he said.
Ivashchenko was appointed to the position of the head of the Mariupol administration on April 6 by the decree of the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
The situation on the contact line in Donbas escalated on February 17. The Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics reported the most intense shelling by Ukraine in recent months. On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in response to a request for help from the leaders of the Donbas republics, announced a special military operation aimed at denazifying and demilitarizing Ukraine.
Deputies from OPFL adjusted the fire of the Russian army on Mariupol — city council
Mariupol City Council named five traitors.
Deputies from the Opposition Platform — For Life party in Mariupol turned out to be informants of the Russian military: they actually adjusted their fire on civilian infrastructure. This was announced by the Mariupol City Council on Telegram.
“We have received convincing evidence of the crimes of collaborators with the OP-ZH in Mariupol. They did not just support the occupiers, but acted as informants for the enemy army and actually corrected the shelling of critical civilian infrastructure,” the statement said.
The city council noted that it was the collaborators of the OPFL who helped the Russian military quickly paralyze the city and create a humanitarian catastrophe.
“Since the first days of the war, the occupiers have been destroying the city’s life support facilities with precision fire. Utility companies and equipment. Warehouses with food and medicine. Mobile phone towers and power lines. Pumping stations and the main water supply from the reserve reservoir. All city buses prepared for the evacuation of the population were burned. The meeting place of the emergency headquarters of the city services was quickly discredited and also subjected to shelling,” said the Mariupol City Council.
According to the report, now the traitors from the OPFL are helping to create an occupation administration.
Appointment of Ivashchenko as mayor of Mariupol:
“Now the accomplices of the genocide in Mariupol are actively contributing to the creation of the occupation administration. All materials on collaborators have already been transferred to the SBU,” the statement added.
The Mariupol City Council also named the full names of the deputies involved in the destruction of the city and the murder of civilians: Konstantin Ivashchenko, Dmitry Khadzhinov, Yevgeny Kharmyshev, Natalia Sotnikova, and Elena Karpenko.
Earlier, the Security Service of Ukraine reported that Russians are preparing a new provocation in Mariupol to blame the city’s defenders for their crimes.
Summary
Konstantin Ivashchenko is a traitor and corrupt official who turned Mariupol-based Azovmash into a bankrupt enterprise, deprived employees of their salaries, and then helped the occupiers capture Mariupol. Ivashchenko brings only trouble and destruction to this country.