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Transparency International Ukraine#

Present in every composition of the PIC since 2016

Transparency International Ukraine is the Ukrainian national chapter of the global anti-corruption movement, registered in 1999. It is documented on CrimeaWatch because it has taken part in forming the Public Integrity Council in all four cycles since 2016 — the body whose Indicators of Integrity place visits to temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory in the same enumeration as visits to the Russian Federation.

Why This Profile Exists#

TI Ukraine is one of four organizations present in every PIC composition. In the two most recent cycles that presence is certified by published decisions of the High Qualification Commission of Judges, which vets the organizations permitted to take part in the assemblies forming the Council: decision No. 40/zp-23 of 27 July 2023 and decision No. 138/zp-25 of 21 July 2025, both naming the organization by its registration code.

Its current delegate, Olha Veretilnyk, was elected speaker-coordinator of the fourth composition — the Council’s most senior position.

The Chapter’s Contradiction#

An international movement’s national chapter carries obligations that a purely domestic organization does not. Transparency International measures countries against standards it applies globally, and its Ukrainian chapter has consistently framed Russia’s occupation of Crimea in the terms Ukrainian and international law use: temporary occupation of Ukrainian territory, not a change of sovereignty.

Paragraph 1.5 of the Indicators does not preserve that framing. It assesses travel to the occupied peninsula on the same footing as travel to the Russian Federation, subject only to an exception for journeys made out of urgent need — an exception whose existence confirms the default rule rather than removing it.

The Constitution of Ukraine (Articles 2, 73, 133–134), the Law on the Temporarily Occupied Territory (No. 1207-VII, 2014) and UN General Assembly Resolution 68/262 (2014) treat the peninsula as Ukrainian territory under occupation. TI Ukraine has published no analysis of the conflict between that framework and the methodology of a body it has helped staff for a decade.

What This Profile Does Not Claim#

CrimeaWatch documents no statement by Transparency International Ukraine recognizing Crimea as Russian territory, and none is alleged here.

Two limits are stated explicitly. The first composition falls outside the methodology claim: the 2016 delegation predates the Indicators, whose first version was adopted on 11 January 2019, and is recorded as institutional history rather than as a documented instance. Delegation is not a vote: the organization’s delegates voted, the organization did not. What is documented is the placement of members and the absence of public objection.

Nomination Record#

In the assembly that formed the Council’s first composition in 2016, the organization put forward 6 candidates and 6 were seated. Its nominations overlapped with those of the Centre of Policy and Legal Reform, Avtomaidan and the Public Lustration Committee. Across the assembly as a whole, nine organizations submitted 30 nominations covering 24 distinct people for 20 seats, and 6 of the 20 members elected were nominated by two organizations at once.

In the assembly that formed the Council’s fourth composition in 2025, the organization put forward one candidate and that candidate was seated. It shared no nominee with any other organization in that cycle. Across the assembly as a whole, twelve organizations submitted 41 nominations covering 24 distinct people for 20 seats, and 14 of the 18 members elected were nominated by two organizations at once.

Cross-nomination is permitted by the procedure and is not in itself irregular. It is recorded here because the authority of the Council’s Indicators of Integrity rests on the breadth of the body that adopts them, and the published candidate tables are the only public measure of that breadth. See Who Vetted the Vetters for the full arithmetic.

Response and Corrections#

Transparency International Ukraine may submit a response or a correction request to [email protected]. Submissions are assessed against the underlying sources. Where a statement on this page is shown to be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, the profile is amended and the correction is recorded.

CrimeaWatch does not publish responses verbatim and gives no undertaking to reproduce them. What a verified response changes is the content of this profile.

Summary#

Transparency International Ukraine is documented on this site as one of four organizations that have taken part in forming every composition of the Public Integrity Council since 2016, certified in the last two cycles by published decisions of the High Qualification Commission of Judges, and represented in the current composition by its speaker-coordinator.

The Ukrainian chapter of the world’s principal anti-corruption movement has helped staff, for ten years, a body whose Indicators of Integrity treat travel to temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory in the same terms as travel to the Russian Federation, and has not publicly addressed the contradiction.

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