KYIV, Jan 30 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny CEO Andriy Kobolev has said that he had decided to donate all his salary and other income to three charitable funds until the end of the current calendar year.

"My salary, unfortunately, has become a political issue, everyone is footballing it. Elections, the issue is interesting, not many people in Ukraine earn a big salary. This is a very popular story. It is used for political purposes. And this pressure that the government also feels, led to the fact that it attempted to intervene not in its powers, because according to the law on joint stock companies, approval of my salary and the conditions of my contract is the exclusive powers of the supervisory board [of Naftogaz Ukrayiny]. To remove these prospects from the political arena, I made a decision from February of this year until the end of this calendar year, that is, until the end of the political process, I will transfer all my income to charitable needs," Kobolev said on the ICTV TV channel on Monday evening.