Seeing Nord Stream 2 as a serious threat to Naftogaz, Yuriy Vitrenko, the new CEO is shaking up his international strategy team,

the company has reported. “To find new tools to counter the Nord Stream 2 project,” Vitrenko has hired Myron Wasylyk, former Ukraine director general of PBN Hill + Knowlton Strategies, as an international adviser. An American with Washington experience, Wasylyk has worked for the National Committee of the Republican Party, the State Department, and the US Department of the Environment. To deal with the Rada and government agencies, Vitrenko has Roman Suprun, who has experience in government relations projects.