Kherson police received half a million in salaries for the month

In April 2025, five heads and one ex-head of the Main Department of the National Police in Kherson region received a total of more than half a million hryvnias. The largest payments were bonuses and additional remuneration.

This was stated in the response of the Kherson Regional Police to a request from Vgoru.

In April 2025, six people from the management of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kherson Oblast, including the former head, received a total of UAH 585,464.

The largest amount - 106,314 hryvnias 86 kopecks - was paid in April to the deputy chief Oleksandr Baklan. The payments included a base salary (UAH 4,600), a salary for rank (UAH 2,400), allowances (over UAH 14,000 in total), a bonus (almost UAH 40,000) and additional remuneration (over UAH 45,000).

Other deputy chiefs of police received:

• Oleksandr Lymanets - UAH 105,669, including UAH 45,000 in additional remuneration;
• Vyacheslav Shynkaryov - UAH 104,756, including UAH 39,000 as a bonus;
• Mykola Verbytskyi - UAH 104,970, almost half of which is a bonus and remuneration.

Former regional police chief Ihor Korol, who no longer headed the department in April, received UAH 100,424. Almost 83,000 of this amount was financial assistance for health improvement.

Roman Koziakov, the new head of the Kherson regional police, who officially took office in early April, received UAH 63,328, the lion's share of which - UAH 45,388 - was a bonus. Prior to his appointment to Kherson, Colonel Koziakov was the head of the police in the Kirovohrad region. Prior to that, he worked in the Criminal Investigation Department of Kyiv, and later in the Kyiv regional police, where he was deputy head of the regional department. He has been in a leadership position since 2016.

According to the journalists, in general, the data on salaries of the Kherson police leadership show a significant share of bonuses and additional remuneration, which often exceeds the basic salary several times.

And four MPs from Kherson region declared modest incomes: they live on their salaries, do not buy new property, and their savings remain almost unchanged. The majority of them have only a stable parliamentary salary and no expensive real estate or income updates since 2022.

Анна Бальчінос