On April 6, First Deputy Minister for Fuel and Energy Vitaly Haiduk told journalists about his resignation. He specified immediately he was not resigning “out of protest” and this was a decision of his own. Nobody had ever told or hinted him to resign. The now former deputy minister explained that Minister Stanislav Stashevsky has a totally different vision of the functions a ranking official should have to form an inseparable whole with the minister. Meanwhile, the numerous problems in the energy sector require that the top executives display complete mutual trust and understanding in order to solve the former. But, as Mr. Haiduk thinks, this would take too much time. His professional background, too (“I am not a gas man or an energy man, etc.”), will not allow him, again in his own opinion, to fulfill the tasks assigned by the new minister who, as we recall, was Kyiv deputy mayor before this appointment. Yet, Mr. Haiduk noted he was resigning with a feeling he had done his duty because the energy sector is now on the upswing, providing a 50-Hz frequency, a thing we have not had in the past seven years.
Still, according to Mr. Haiduk, the sector has far more problems today than was apparent a year ago. He thinks it is time the energy sector struggled for a powerful consumer, otherwise there will soon be nobody to supply electric power to. In addition, the former deputy minister pointed out he could not imagine himself working to this end. Mr. Haiduk said he did not plan holding any official office, but he declined to disclose the details of his farewell conversation with the prime minister, simultaneously stressing that their relationship is not yet over. According The Day’s source at the Ministry of Fuel and Energy, Mr. Haiduk, who can get along well with both Ms. Tymoshenko and Mr. Yermilov, “will soon surface for all to see.” Judging by the fact, the source said, that he intends “to clear his backlog of family problems” in Donetsk, he might surface precisely there.
