Homeless deputies and businessmen: what do Kherson city council members own?

Kherson MPs own significant residential and non-residential real estate, with most of their main income coming from business and property sales. At the same time, several MPs did not declare any housing, and some of it is located in the temporarily occupied territories.

The Center forPublic Investigations investigated the real estate owned by MPs.

Yuriy Rozhkov from the party "We Live Here" has the largest living space among the MPs - 683 square meters in total. He personally owns a 554.5-square-meter house in the Kherson community, and his wife Victoria owns a 46.7-square-meter house and an 81.4-square-meter apartment in Kherson.

Similarly, the section on housing in the declaration of the MP from the Servant of the People party Kostiantyn Kyrychenko remained unchanged in 2024 - the total area of his housing is 678 square meters. He and his wife have a joint house of 87.5 square meters in Kherson, Kyrychenko himself has a house of 517 square meters, and his wife has a house of 73.2 square meters in the Kherson community.

Andriy Dmytriyev still owns two apartments with a total area of 248.3 square meters - in Kyiv and Kherson. His wife, Gulnara, has two more apartments in Kherson of 52 and 115.53 square meters.

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Oleksandr Demchuk of "We Live Here" declared 370 square meters of housing - a 45-square-meter apartment in Kherson and a 47-square-meter house in the temporarily occupied territory. His wife owns two houses: 240 square meters in Kherson and 38 square meters in the TOT.

Servant of the People MP Yuriy Kyrylov has a 68.1-square-meter apartment in Kherson. His wife, Oksana, owns two apartments in Kyiv (46 and 67.5 square meters), the latter of which she purchased in 2024 for UAH 4.8 million, and a house in Chornobaivka with a total area of 138.5 square meters.

Some MPs, such as Olena Mazur, Viktor Sukhokobylin, Oleksandr Lozhychev, Yuriy Stelmashenko, and Andriy Medvedev, do not have their own homes. However, some use other people's property: Olena Mazur has the right to use an 85.1-square-meter house owned by Oleksandr Ambartsumov, and Oleksandr Lozhychev lives in a 144.1-square-meter house in Kherson owned by Olena Holova for free. The Lozhychevs also have the right to use a 38-square-meter apartment in Chernivtsi owned by Hanna Onchulenko for free.

In general, the area of residential real estate of the MPs remained almost unchanged, although some of them received new properties. At the same time, some MPs did not declare any housing.

Only 9 out of 35 current MPs declared business property in their declarations. The total area of non-residential properties is 15,064 square meters, which is about a quarter of the area of the destroyed Fabrika shopping center.

Mykhailo Opanashchenko of the OPFL has the most non-residential real estate - 8,644 square meters. He owns a production complex with an area of 1,512 square meters, and his wife owns two non-residential building complexes with a total area of 7,131 square meters.

The second place in terms of area belongs to Andriy Dmytriyev, a former MP from the "We Live Here" party, with 4,085 square meters of non-residential real estate, including 13 properties, including a store in Kherson and premises in Zaporizhzhia. Some of the property is located in the temporarily occupied territory and is registered in his wife's name.

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The third place goes to another former OPFL MP Anton Khmaro - his family owns 923 square meters of non-residential real estate. He himself does not declare any properties, while his wife owns several shops and offices in Kherson.

Andriy Sydorenko of "We live here" has somewhat less space - 432 square meters, including several non-residential premises and the building of the former district heating plant 6 in Kherson.

Mykola Dmytriyev, also a former MP from We Live Here, declared 395 square meters of non-residential real estate: a shopping center in Mykolaiv, a cafe, two parking spaces in Kherson, and a share in a medical center. His wife has real estate in the occupied territory.

His fellow party member, Dmytro Piddubnyi, has a non-residential premises in Kherson with an area of 267.7 square meters, as of 2023. Yevhen Trotskyi owns half of a cafe in Kherson - 241.6 square meters, unchanged from last year. Olga Spivakina owns much less real estate - 58.5 square meters in Kherson, and the husband of MP Alla Malytska owns an 18 square meter garage. Alla Malytska herself does not own any non-residential real estate.

Thus, the deputies' declarations are dominated by shops, medical centers, industrial complexes, cafes and garages.

Kherson City Council members and former deputies also declared tens of millions of hryvnias in 2024, most of which came from business rather than salaries. Three officials received the highest income - their families earned between UAH 6 and 11 million.

Анна Бальчінос