The director of the Mykolaiv Combined Heat and Power Plant earns around ₴157,000 a month, according to his declaration

Dmytro Myroshnychenko, Director of the Mykolaiv CHP

Dmytro Myroshnychenko, Director of the Mykolaiv Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHP), stated in his declaration of assets and income for 2025 that he earned 2.7 million hryvnias in that role last year.

The relevant declaration has been published in the Unified State Register of Declarations, NikVesti reports.

On average, this amounts to 228,800 hryvnias per month, which is 35,000 hryvnias more than the previous year. The net amount received by the CHP director is lower — after tax, it amounted to 157,700 hryvnias per month, according to the CHP’s response to an information request from NikVesti.

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In his declaration, the head of the state-owned enterprise stated that his actual place of residence coincides with his place of registration, namely Mariupol in the Donetsk region, which has been temporarily occupied by Russia for three years.

According to the declaration, the director of the Mykolaiv CHP owns a 32.3-square-metre holiday home in the village of Prymorske, Donetsk region, which he purchased in 2019. In the same year, the official purchased a 512-square-metre plot of land.

His wife, Oksana, owns a flat measuring 61.7 square metres, located in Mariupol, which is temporarily occupied by Russia.

Dmytro Myroshnychenko did not provide any further information regarding his place of residence in the declaration. However, it is worth noting that officials are required to declare not only property owned by them or their family members, but also their place of permanent or temporary residence. For example, First Deputy Mayor Vitalii Lukov, who moved to Mykolaiv from Voznesensk to take up his post, stated in his 2024 income declaration that he has been living rent-free in a flat in Mykolaiv since January 2023.

The director of the Mykolaiv Thermal Power Plant also stated in his declaration that he owns a 2012 Nissan Note, which he purchased in 2012.

The official holds 1.3 million hryvnias, 13,000 dollars and 5,000 euros in cash.

The NikVesti journalist against Mykolaiv CHP court case

Recently, the state-owned company «Mykolaiv Combined Heat and Power Plant» (CHP) lost a court case against a journalist from the online media outlet NikVesti regarding the provision of public information on the amount of salaries and bonuses paid to senior management for 2023.

Over a year ago, on 24 January 2024, the publication’s editor-in-chief, Kateryna Sereda, sent an information request to the company, asking for details of the salaries and bonuses received by the management of Mykolaiv CHP in 2023. A separate item in the request concerned information on the amounts of remuneration, expense allowances and additional benefits provided to members of the Supervisory Board of the Private Joint-Stock Company Mykolaiv CHP.

However, no response was received from the state-owned company. It was only three months later that they replied in a letter, justifying their position by stating that this was confidential information about the company’s employees, which could not be made publicly available because they were not a state authority. In May 2024, the publication filed a lawsuit to compel the CHP to disclose the salary data.

In its ruling, the court noted that 100% of the shares in «Mykolaiv Combined Heat and Power Plant» are owned by JSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, and therefore the CHP is the custodian of public information regarding the structure, principles of determination and amount of remuneration for the director, deputy director, and any person who permanently or temporarily holds the position of a member of the executive body or is a member of the supervisory board, and is obliged to provide such information upon request.