Journalists report on Russian citizenship of wife of Odesa SBU chief

The Hromadske media outlet reported that it had discovered that the wife of the head of the Security Service of Ukraine in Odesa region, Viktor Dorovskoy, had Russian citizenship.

As the journalists stated in their investigation, they found information about two Russian passports of Oksana Dorovska, a native of Kharkiv, issued under the previous surname of the law enforcement officer's wife, Burmistrova. Moreover, one of Ms. Dorovska's passports is still valid, according to information from the Russian unified state portal Gosuslugi (State Services).

However, the SBU confirmed only the existence of a Russian passport, which Oksana Dorovska received at the age of 14, and told about another one - a foreign passport, obtained later, in 2005. It has already expired. At the same time, the Security Service said that the general's wife tried to get rid of her Russian citizenship, but she failed to do so because of bureaucracy.

The investigation also claims that during the full-scale invasion, Oksana Dorovska built business ties in Cyprus with sanctioned lawyers who are closely connected to pro-Russian oligarchs, Viktor Medvedchuk and Vadym Novynskyi.

"The woman severed her business ties with the Cypriots only after Hromadske's request to the Security Service. Hromadske also found that Dorovska had purchased luxury real estate with a market value of approximately $1.3 million in 2018-2019," the journalists said.

According to the publication, the SBU general's father, Oleksandr Dorovskyi, became the owner of one of the largest pharmaceutical groups of companies in Ukraine during the Great War, which was under investigation at the time. It was the Zdorovye Pharmaceutical Group, which Ukrainian law enforcement officials linked to a former Russian MP, member of the United Russia party, and oligarch Alexander Shishkin. Because of these connections, the prosecutor's office considered it necessary to nationalize the pharmaceutical group's companies. But the criminal proceedings did not result in anything, and the relatives of the SBU general received pharmaceutical assets.

The lawyers who spoke to the city council considered several possible versions of events: either the father of the SBU general "replaced" the previous owners of the pharmaceutical group, who had ties to Russia, to confuse the investigation, or the criminal proceedings against the Zdorovye group of companies were used to seize its assets.

In 2020, Oksana Dorovska opened a Timespell beauty salon in Odesa. After the start of the full-scale invasion, this business began to develop in Cyprus as well. Hromadske managed to find out this with the help of the <u>YC World</u> service. And in 2023, judging by the photos on the Internet, Oksana Dorovska opened a beauty salon near the city of Paphos. The salon's Instagram page has posts from 2025 as well.

"PMS MERCURY CORPORATE SERVICES administers and provides legal and procedural support for the business of the wife of the SSU General. This company is run by the Sofocleous family of Cypriot lawyers and several of their colleagues. All of them are under Ukrainian sanctions," the investigators said.

During 2018-2019, General Viktor Dorovskyi's wife acquired property worth approximately USD 1.3 million. In particular, in 2019, Oksana Dorovska became the owner of a huge estate in the premium cottage community of Riviera Zoloche near Kyiv. The area of the main house is 488 square meters.

Кирило Бойко