Zelenskyy appointed 16 judges to the High Anti-Corruption Court. Why is this important?

The information was published on the president’s website.

Pursuant to Decree No. 782/2026, the president appointed the following individuals as judges of the High Anti-Corruption Court:

• Viktor Pavlovych Antypenko,
• Oksana Petrivna Hutsal,
• Yevhen Volodymyrovych Didenko,
• Oleksandr Yuriyovych Dudchenko,
• Vitaliy Oleksiyovych Koryagin,
• Vladislav Oleksandrovych Kukhta,
• Mykola Yevhenovych Pika,
• Lesya Ivanivna Skrekl,
• Irina Oleksandrivna Teslenko,
• Oleg Petrovich Khamkhodera,
• Marta-Maria Serhiivna Yatsynina.

Pursuant to Decree No. 783/2026, the following individuals have been appointed to the positions of judges of the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court:

• Natalia Oleksiivna Doroshenok,
• Mykola Anatoliyovych Rubashchenko,
• Inna Anatoliivna Smal,
• Olena Vitaliivna Tanasevych,
• Igor Borisovich Chaikin.

Vladimir Grechanyuk was also appointed head of the SBU Directorate in Khmelnytskyi Oblast (No. 802/2026), and Dmitry Nevedrov was appointed head of the SBU Main Directorate in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (No. 799/2026).

As previously reported by “EP,” Ukraine had a deadline of September 17 to fulfill a condition of the Ukraine Facility program in order to receive funding from the European Union. In other words, Kyiv will receive aid only in exchange for the appointment of 20 judges.

For fulfilling this condition, the budget was to receive 300 million euros. However, if the requirements are not fully met, this amount may be proportionally reduced.

As a reminder, the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) remanded former MP Maksym Mykytas into custody with the option of posting bail of 30 million hryvnias. The prosecutor’s office had requested 200 million hryvnias.

The High Anti-Corruption Court also imposed a preventive measure on Valentyn Yelizarov, the head of PJSC “Metrobud”—a subordinate of former MP Maksym Mykytas—in the form of detention until October 18, with an alternative bail of 20 million hryvnias.