Igor Kononenko

In 2022, after the start of a full-scale invasion by the Russian army, Kononenko and his Foundation help the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Territorial Defense Forces, hospitals and air raid shelter: body armor, helmets, tourniquets, first-aid kits, hemostatic agents, armored vans, a quad bike, a quadcopter were handed over to the military and to volunteer centers in the east and south of the country, and medical facilities in a number of regions were provided with medicines and medical products. Nissan Navara cars were purchased for the special purpose battalion "Skif". Subsequently, the businessman buys another vehicle for the needs of the Ukrainian army in the war zone. The total cost of the aid provided for the first 4 months is approximately UAH 30 million. The foundation also cooperates with other benefactors, at the request of the Charitable Foundation "Terytoriya Dobra", financial assistance was provided for the purchase of a collimator sight for one of the sniper squads.

In 2021, the businessman donated a drone to the Special Operations Forces, a generator and auto parts — for the needs of the 58th Independent Motorized Infantry Brigade.

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kononenko lost reelection as an independent candidate in single-seat constituency 94 (Kyiv Oblast). He earned 9036 votes (12,01%).

For the period 2018–2021, Igor Kononenko Charitable Foundation provided social assistance in the amount of more than UAH 7.7 million. In 2020 the fund donated UAH 5.7 million to help medical institutions fight against COVID-19, lung ventilators, oxygen concentrators, pulse oximeters and other important equipment were purchased, іncluding for the central district hospitals of Obukhiv and Vasylkiv, despite the fact that he lost the election in this districts.

In 2017, the International Tennis Academy (ITA), created with the support of the people's deputy Igor Kononenko, signed contracts with the champions of tennis tournaments in the junior group Maria Dolzhenko and Daria Snigur, according to which ITA undertakes to finance the training and away tournaments of young tennis players until they reach 18 age. ITA provides training grants to talented athletes. Tennis training at the academy is conducted by Ukrainian and foreign coaches who have sporting achievements and extensive experience in training tennis players of international level.

In an e-declaration for 2016, Kononenko showed a total income of UAH 14,743,000. As a deputy he earned in the Verkhovna Rada UAH 161 thousand, he also had UAH 82 thousand as a percentage of the deposit in the Ukrsotsbank. From the VIK Foundation, Kononenko received dividends of UAH 14.5 million. On the account in the Ukrsotsbank he had UAH 2 million.

In the declaration of 2015, Igor Kononenko indicated the following companies in which he was the head or investor: Shipbuilding plant "Leninska Kuznia" (Kyiv), International Tennis Academy, Medservice Plus, Promavtomatika, European House, Kievgate Investment, Treck Holding Coast S.L. (Spain), Lancashire Big (Spain), Treck Holding Limited (Gibraltar), Vnesheconomservis LLC, RI-SYSTEM LIMITED, Peskovsky glass manufacturing plant (jointly with Petro Poroshenko), Sports and recreational complex "Monitor" (jointly with Poroshenko), insurance company "Kraina" (jointly with Poroshenko), AK Bogdan Motors (jointly with Poroshenko), International Investment Bank (jointly with Poroshenko), Non-diversified investment fund VIK.

In an e-declaration for 2015, Igor Kononenko indicated salaries in the Verkhovna Rada of ₴77,772. From the VIK Foundation, Kononenko received dividends of ₴14 million. Kononenko declared real estate objects (7 land plots and 6 apartment buildings in Kyiv and the Kyiv Oblast) for a total of more than ₴1.8 billion. He also declared US$928 thousand, €965,000, and ₴6,628,000 in cash. The deputy owns a land plots of 4654 m and 2255 m, as well as apartment buildings with an area of 1643.6 m and 36.6 m. The cost of the first house in the Kyiv's elite area "Tsarskoe Selo" is estimated at UAH 244 million, and cost of the site is UAH 105 million. In addition, Kononenko has an apartment of 236.6 m (worth of UAH 7.07 million) and Mercedes-Benz GL 600.

Kononenko is a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (8th convocation) since November 2014, first deputy chairman of the Bloc "Solidarity", a close friend of Petro Poroshenko. He often referred to as the gray eminence of the Ukrainian president. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kononenko lost reelection as an independent candidate in single-seat constituency 94 (Kyiv Oblast).

At the parliamentary elections in 2014, he was elected as a people's deputy on the "Petro Poroshenko Bloc" list (ranked 29th). In the Ukrainian parliament, Kononenko became the first deputy chairman of the faction, also joining the Committee on the Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Security and the Inter-parliamentary group on relations with Austria.

According to a 2013 electronic declaration, Igor Kononenko officially declared ₴30 million.

Kononenko owns an PJSC Closed Non-diversified Corporate Investment fund VIK, which manages seven companies. Since 2012 he is a chairman of the supervisory board of its fund. Kononenko is the most important business partner of Petro Poroshenko and worked as a chairman of the supervisory board in Poroshenko's company

From 2006 to 2014, Kononenko was a deputy of the Kyiv City Council of the 5th and 6th convocations from the Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc. He was the deputy chairman of the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications. In the elections to the Kyiv City Council of 2014, Kononenko entered the electoral list of the party UDAR, where he took 11th place.

Kononenko was also a member of the supervisory board and worked in Poroshenko's companies, such as CJSC Ukrainian Industrial and Investment Concern (member of the supervisory board in 1994–2005, first deputy and general director in 2009–2012), Bogdan Motors, Sports-health complex "Monitor" and International Investment Bank. In the latter, Kononenko is a minority shareholder (owner of a 14.92% stake).

After graduation in 1982 at the 45th secondary school in Kyiv, Kononenko studied at the Automobile and Highway Institute in Kyiv (KAHI; currently called the National Transport University). From 1984 to 1986, he served in the Soviet Army, where he met Petro Poroshenko. In 1989, he graduated with honors in the Kyiv Automobile and Highway Institute with a degree in Economics and Management in Transport. From 1988 to 1990, he worked as secretary of the Komsomol committee in the KAHI. From 1990 to 1991, he was deputy director of the structural unit of the city headquarters of the student brigade. From 1991 to 1994, he worked as commercial director in two companies – MP "Transport" and JSC Exchange House "Ukraine". From 2004 to 2009, he was chairman of the supervisory board of a transport company (OJSC "Kyiv Motor Transport Enterprise – 2240") in Kyiv.

Kononenko is married to Liliya Kononenko (born 1966) and has three children: two daughters (Darya, Olha) and one son (Vitaliy). Vitaliy Kononenko works as Sports director of the Sports school "International Tennis Academy", which until 2015 was the children's pioneer camp "Yunga" at the plant "Leninskaya Kuznitsa". After the reconstruction in 2015, the sports school has become a closed tennis club, which is a violation of Ukrainian law. The Law of Ukraine "On Physical Culture and Sport" forbids tuition for training in children's and youth sports schools.

Ihor Vitaliiovych Kononenko (Ukrainian: Ігор Віталійович Кононенко; born 21 August 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician.